Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEIL
SIMONE WEIL
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
Simone WeilSimone Weil The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
Simone WeilSimone Weil The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
Simone WeilSimone Weil We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Simone WeilSimone Weil A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone WeilSimone Weil It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
Simone WeilSimone Weil 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.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
Simone WeilSimone Weil It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
Simone WeilSimone Weil The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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People who don’t know how to love you are always going to hurt your heart.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta I no longer seek the love I think I deserve but rather the love I’ve always deserved.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole There is no such thing as a good investment.
Manish KhuntetaManish Khunteta Without you, I’m lost.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch I did everything I could to make it work I was casting nets into the ocean and all they were doing was returning back empty.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados We flew to heaven, and we touched the sun.
Jennifer JulietteJennifer Juliette You told me everything would be okay. I wish you had said – you’ll hurt but I’ll hold you.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye Be brave, be bold, beware that you must believe before becoming.
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong People ask me if I could fly, I said, yeah – for a little while.
Michael JordanMichael Jordan God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho MarxGroucho Marx Feeling free, let us fly, into the boundless, beyond the sky, for we were born to never die.
Michael JacksonMichael Jackson Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she’s not invisible. I don’t get it.
Megan FoxMegan Fox Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong