The world is God’s language to us.
SIMONE WEILIn struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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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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