“We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.”

 “We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.”

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

“If we look down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”

“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”

“Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.”

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”

― Simone Weil