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In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen. — Sharon Weil

Cut away ruthlessly everything that is imaginary in your feelings. — Simone Weil

Renunciation is submission to time. — Simone Weil

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void. — Simone Weil

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil

But hard does not mean depressed, just as easy does not mean content. — Andrew Weil

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies. — Simone Weil

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home. — Cynthia Weil

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil

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. — Simone Weil

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten. — Simone Weil

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. — Simone Weil

Good and evil always existed. I kind of expected that. — J.L. Weil

Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change. — Sharon Weil

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. — Simone Weil

Ginny who lived her life with hair in the breeze, Stillman who lived his with it under his hat. And he loved her so much the worse for it. — Josh Weil

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible. — Andrew Weil

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. — Andrew Weil

It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time. — Andrew Weil

We have known for many years that we need vitamin D to facilitate calcium absorption and promote bone mineralization. — Andrew Weil

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that. — Andrew Weil

The only great spirit of our time. — Simone Weil

If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate. — Simone Weil

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts. — Simone Weil

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love. — Simone Weil

Time does us violence; it is the only violence. — Simone Weil

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false? — Simone Weil

Do you have any idea what your sacrifice was?" he asked Chase.
"Yeah, my sanity," he mumbled under his breath.
I kicked him. — J.L. Weil

The world is God's language to us. — Simone Weil

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation. — Simone Weil

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. — Simone Weil

Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood. — Andrew Weil

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty. — Simone Weil

The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity. — Simone Weil

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight
the prejudice that everything sexual is vile. — Simone Weil

You can fuck me if you want," she said. "I know a man needs to be able to say thank you - and words don't always come so easy. — Sharon Weil

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word. — Simone Weil

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process. — Cynthia Weil

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility. — Simone Weil

I could use all the confidence I could get. If possible, I would steal some from the egotistical Chase. He had more than enough to spare. — J.L. Weil

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal. — Simone Weil

Time's violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters. — Simone Weil

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship. — Simone Weil

Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting. — Sharon Weil

We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were. — Cynthia Weil

But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. "Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light." 240. — Maggie Nelson

Money, mechanization, algebra. The three monsters of contemporary civilization. — Simone Weil

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower. — Simone Weil

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God. — Simone Weil

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence. — Simone Weil

The nature of Nature is change. — Sharon Weil

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves. — Simone Weil

Conformity is an imitation of grace. — Simone Weil

More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words. — Andrew Weil

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me. — Simone Weil

Every journey towards change begins with awareness. — Sharon Weil

The skies have been filled with amethyst tears. — J.L. Weil

When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater. — Cynthia Weil

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. — Simone Weil

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more. — Cynthia Weil

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is. — Simone Weil

I can't seem to write young enough anymore. — Cynthia Weil

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. — Simone Weil

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with. — Cynthia Weil

Given that I don't know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one? — Sharon Weil

I shook my head, thinking this girl has more issues than Vogue. — J.L. Weil

The Gospels: God's perfection consists in non-intervention. — Simone Weil

There isn't a man on earth who doesn't at times pronounce an opinion on good and evil, even if it be only to find fault with somebody else. — Simone Weil

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of His with the certainty of experience. I have touched it. — Simone Weil

You can run Angel, but I'll always find you, he said smirking. - Chase Winters — J.L. Weil

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations. — Zoe Weil

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul. — Simone Weil

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. — Simone Weil

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. — Simone Weil

Live your epitaph — Zoe Weil

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. — Simone Weil

But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits. — Cynthia Weil

I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria. — Andrew Weil

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us. — Simone Weil

The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it. — Simone Weil

Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are. — Sharon Weil

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. — Simone Weil

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization. — Andrew Weil

The fact of dying for what is strong robs death of its bitterness - and at the same time of all its value. — Simone Weil

Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats. — Simone Weil

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value. — Simone Weil

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State. — Simone Weil

The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me. — Andrew Weil

What a country calls its vital ... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. — Simone Weil

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity. — Simone Weil

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it. — Simone Weil

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors. — Simone Weil

Heartburn is how I recognize myself. It's how I know I feel like me. - Donny — Sharon Weil

One is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it. — Simone Weil

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction. — Simone Weil

Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high. — Cynthia Weil

Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it. — Simone Weil