Thomas Merton

I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

If you wanna break these walls down, you’re gonna get bruised.

I want to be loved while I’m here, and the only way to get love is to give love.

Trust. Above all, I ask for trust. You won’t know every thought that crosses my mind, but just know that they’re all for us.

I don’t wanna wake it up, the devil in me.

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

To me, obligation is not love. Letting someone be open, honest and free – that’s love. It’s got to come natural and it’s got to be real.

Oh, we’ll be looking for sunlight, or the headlights, ’til our wide eyes burn blind.

I’d tell you how beautiful you look today, but there’s not enough time before sunset to tell how you set fire to a sundress; my mouth is overflowing from yesterday.

I have you in one world, but I need you in two: the hands and the heart, just one won’t do.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

You demonstrate love by giving it unconditionally to yourself. And as you do, you attract others into your life who are able to love you without conditions.

What’s the difference?’ I asked him, ‘Between the love of your life and your soulmate?’ ‘One is a choice, and one is not.’