There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
SIMONE WEILLove of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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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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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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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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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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