Quotes of Simone Weil

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

- Simone Weil

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“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ There are no trips to your past that are free ”

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ”

- Randall Munroe

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity. ”

- Ezra

“ One day she will be mine. I am telling you. I need to have her, and she needs me. She just doesn’t know it yet. There is no one in the world that could love her the way I could. ”

- Nico J. Genes

“ Could you exist just for the art of existence? ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ The price of your birthday outfits should go costlier with respect to the ages you lived. ”

- Anwesha Mohanty ‘Anny’

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling