The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and th…

Thomas Merton
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The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received. ✨ Thomas Merton (2002). No Man Is an Island, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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