“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another.”

— Thomas Merton
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“The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music. The trees and the stars and the blue hills appear to us as symbols aching with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.”

— Rabindranath Tagore
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​“Walking through falling cherry blossom, I cherish nature’s reminders to love each moment and then to let each pass, to leave the garden of the soul free for each new season of wonder.”

— Quiet Lotus
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​“The future stands firm ... but we move in infinite space.”

​— Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.”

— Vincent van Gogh
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