"Treatment originates outside you: healing comes from within." — Andrew Weil, American medical educator, born 1942
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909
"He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909
"Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909
"The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909
"There are now two sorts of countries in the world, those that want to expel the Jews and those that don't want to admit them." — Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli politician, born 1874
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909
"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909
"Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909