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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.

Simone Weil

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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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
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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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue

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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