Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The…

Thomas Merton
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Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible. ✨ Thomas Merton (1979). Love and Living, p.40, Macmillan
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