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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Simone Weil

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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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Goodness Heart Human Object World
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves

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