Weil, Simone

"Gratitude opens the doors of the heart."

"Creativity is the courage to let go of certainty."

"Justice is impossible without love."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"Kindness is the language of love."

"Strength grows in the places where we are broken."

"Fear is the greatest teacher if we listen well."

"Power understood rightly is service."

"The soul's natural sickness is forgetfulness."

"Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer."

"Gravity and grace are the two fundamental forces of the soul."

"We must prefer a cruel truth to a comfortable delusion."

"The only way to think clearly is to think alone."

"Affliction is the tool of divine education."

"The decreasing of distance between ourselves and God is the whole spiritual life."

"Imagination is not the same as daydreaming."

"Labor must be organized as a contact with pure matter."

"The present is the only real thing we truly possess."

"Beauty reveals the absence of God."

"True intelligence consists in not confusing the map with the territory."

"Friendship is the most necessary relationship for human flourishing."

"The wretched of the earth require bread and poetry."

"We must learn to think against ourselves."

"The supernatural alone can be felt and touched as an external force."

"The void is the only pure good we know for certain."

"Method without devotion is mere technique."

"Patience is the only way to wisdom."

"The soul cannot exist without the body's acknowledgment."

"Genius perceives the order of nature before others recognize it."

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important need of the human soul."