Top 100 Weil's Quotes
#1. [Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.
Flannery O'Connor
#2. I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it's an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.
Andrew Weil
#3. A wish is a single unit of hope. It's a single request for something I dearly desire.
Sharon Weil
#4. Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.
Flannery O'Connor
#5. A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not I." Maud knew this neat division represented an over-simplification. The doll-mask she saw had nothing to do with her, nothing.
A.S. Byatt
#6. There's no limit to what working with the breath can accomplishmy own first-hand experiences with this natural healing method have convinced me that breathing well may be the master key to good health. I recommend breath work to all my patients.
Andrew Weil
#7. Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
Andrew Weil
#8. The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.
Andrew Weil
#9. On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.
Cynthia Weil
#10. The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.
Cynthia Weil
#11. Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs.
Andrew Weil
#12. Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.
Cynthia Weil
#13. Heartburn is how I recognize myself. It's how I know I feel like me. - Donny
Sharon Weil
#14. Time's violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
Simone Weil
#15. Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.
Andrew Weil
#16. As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.
Andrew Weil
#18. I'm growing mushrooms ... because I can't kill them. They just keep multiplying ... and it's like ... I'm in service to them.
Sharon Weil
#19. Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day's work is over and you are free to relax and sleep.
Andrew Weil
#20. I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk.
Andrew Weil
#21. Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.
Cynthia Weil
#22. The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
Simone Weil
#23. Ursula, we have to talk ... ' he said, almost blurting. He couldn't believe he was in the "we have to talk" position. It was so unnerving. 'I have to ask you ... Let's be each other's emergency contact numbers.' This was his first concession towards commitment.
Sharon Weil
#24. Lovers remain in each other's energy fields for 21 days after intercourse. Renewed with each act. Do the math. Choose wisely ... otherwise you're carrying that stink with you for a long time ... Stop having sex right now! ... All of you. Until you know you're not giving yourselves away. - Sheerah
Sharon Weil
#25. The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.
Simone Weil
#26. A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.
Cynthia Weil
#28. The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.
Andrew Weil
#29. Imagination belongs to hope. It's the creative dance of possibility.
Sharon Weil
#30. There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
Simone Weil
#31. The beauty of this world is Christ's tender smile coming to us through matter.
Simone Weil
#32. The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
Simone Weil
#33. Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being ...
Simone Weil
#34. I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment ... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.
Andrew Weil
#35. It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.
Cynthia Weil
#36. All it takes is rumor ... The danger itself is irrelevant. It's the perception of danger we're selling.
Sharon Weil
#37. By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.
Andrew Weil
#38. 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
#39. I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.
Andrew Weil
#40. There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.
Andrew Weil
#41. Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.
Cynthia Weil
#42. If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.
Simone Weil
#43. THIS is the story of an orgasm. Or it could be said this is the story of an orgasm that never was, and then was, and once it was, it's the story of all the ripples it set in motion. It's the reiteration of the total fecundity slam dance, Big Bang Explosion that created the world.
Sharon Weil
#44. I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.
Zoe Weil
#45. There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.
Simone Weil
#46. It is to the prodigals ... that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning.
Simone Weil
#47. The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
Simone Weil
#48. It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.
Andrew Weil
#49. When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.
Simone Weil
#50. God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of His with the certainty of experience. I have touched it.
Simone Weil
#51. We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.
Cynthia Weil
#52. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Simone Weil
#53. Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Simone Weil
#54. The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
Simone Weil
#55. Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive
Simone Weil
#56. A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil
#57. The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
Simone Weil
#58. Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
Simone Weil
#59. The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.
Simone Weil
#60. Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.
Andrew Weil
#61. In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.
Andrew Weil
#62. We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
Simone Weil
#63. 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
#64. The essence of health is inner balance.
Andrew Weil
#65. Money, mechanization, algebra. The three monsters of contemporary civilization.
Simone Weil
#66. All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.
Simone Weil
#67. Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.
Andrew Weil
#68. I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems ... In fact, it would be hard to become deficient in protein in our country even if you tried.
Andrew Weil
#69. We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.
Sharon Weil
#70. I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
Simone Weil
#71. If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.
Sharon Weil
#72. If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.
Simone Weil
#73. Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
Simone Weil
#74. Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Simone Weil
#76. Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.
Simone Weil
#77. 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
#78. You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.
Andrew Weil
#79. Simone Weil was absolutely right- beauty and affliction are the only two things that can pierce our hearts. Because this is so true, we must have a measure of beauty in our lives proportionate to our affliction. No more. Much more. Is this not God's prescription for us? Just take a look around.
John Eldredge
#80. To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Simone Weil
#81. The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?
Simone Weil
#82. There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Simone Weil
#83. Travis, if I don't come back ... avenge me."
Dimples in full view, Travis laughed. "It would be my pleasure.
J.L. Weil
#84. Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.
Andrew Weil
#85. Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
Simone Weil
#86. No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.
Simone Weil
#87. In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.
Andre Weil
#88. We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.
Andrew Weil
#89. That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.
Cynthia Weil
#90. If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Simone Weil
#91. Force," Simone Weil wrote, "is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates."2
Chris Hedges
#92. Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.
Andrew Weil
#93. One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
Andrew Weil
#94. I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Simone Weil
#95. The Gospels: God's perfection consists in non-intervention.
Simone Weil
#96. All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.
Simone Weil
#97. Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil
#98. I can't believe you ran out on me, and I'm pretty sure you left your balls behind.
J.L. Weil
#99. We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
Simone Weil
#100. As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone Weil
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