We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
SIMONE WEILFortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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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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