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.
SIMONE WEILTo 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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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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 which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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