Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
SIMONE WEILLove of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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 which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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