We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
SIMONE WEILCompassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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