"It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction."

-- Simone Weil

#Love Quotes #Fall Quotes #Soul Quotes

“...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.”
“When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."”
“Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.”
“An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.”
“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.”
“We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.”
“Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.”
“We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.”

Source : 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'

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