We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
SIMONE WEILIt is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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