If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
SIMONE WEILGod’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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