Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
SIMONE WEILPain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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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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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.
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