Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
SIMONE WEILIf we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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