Simone Weil on mistake
Simone Weil82 quotes“It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.”
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
Simone WeilSimone Weil We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Simone WeilSimone Weil A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone WeilSimone Weil 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.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
Simone WeilSimone Weil 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.
Simone WeilSimone Weil The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
Simone WeilSimone Weil War is the supreme form of prestige.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
Simone WeilSimone 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.
Simone WeilSimone Weil An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone WeilSimone Weil If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on mistake
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
Otto von BismarckOtto von Bismarck Don’t try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
PythagorasPythagoras It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
PericlesPericles If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Mistakes can always be forgiven.
Claire VinsonClaire Vinson We don’t make mistakes. We just have happy accidents.
Bob RossBob Ross Own your mistakes, apologize, learn and move on.
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