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No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

Thomas Merton

What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
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Acceptance Desire Generosity Goodness Greatness Life Live Love Ourselves Self Love
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Art Lose Ourselves Time
A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
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Afraid Faith People Religion
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
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Eyes God Goodness Happiness Heart Joy Peace
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
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Ambition Discover Myself Philosophy Result See
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
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Existence God Identity Image Love Myself Name Reason True
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
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Deep God Philosophy See Spiritual Yourself
The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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Live Ourselves Purpose
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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Compassionate Interdependent Philosophy
No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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Knowledge Man Wisdom Wrong
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
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Art Artist Harmony Kind Moral Mystery Truth
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
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Business Job Kindness Love Ourselves Stop Worth
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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God Himself Ideas Ourselves
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
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Alone Life Live Ourselves True
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
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Bad Failure Greatness Man Success
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
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Belief Humanity Ourselves

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