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Renunciation is submission to time.
— 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
The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
— Simone 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
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
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
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. — Simone Weil
Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.
— Andrew Weil
The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.
— 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
We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.
— Cynthia Weil
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
— Simone Weil
Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting.
— Sharon 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
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
He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
— Simone Weil
The nature of Nature is change.
— Sharon Weil
Conformity is an imitation of grace.
— Simone 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
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
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of His with the certainty of experience. I have touched it.
— Simone 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
The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.
— Simone 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
The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.
— Simone 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
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
— Simone Weil