To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
SIMONE WEILAn atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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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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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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