Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
SIMONE WEILCompassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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