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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

God’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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God Love Ourselves Reason
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
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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Goodness Heart Human Object World
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

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