Quotations

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

— Alan Watts, English-American philosopher, born 1915

"I may be helping feed others, but it is me who is being nourished."

— Marie Waugh

"Look with your heart and not with your eyes. The heart understands. The heart never lies. Believe what it feels, and trust what it shows. Look with your heart; the heart always knows. Love is not always beautiful, not at the start. But open your arms, and close your eyes tight. Look with your heart and when it finds love, your heart will be right."

— Andrew Lloyd Webber, British impresario of musical theater, born March 22, 1948

"Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime."

— Andrew Lloyd Webber, British impresario of musical theater, born March 22, 1948

"The backbone of our nation is held up by a lot of people we never see."

— Brandon Weber, Educator, and change catalyst

"I may not be able to see, but I can still show others, what is possible."

— Erik Weihenmayer, First blind person to reach summit of Mount Everest, born 1968

"The greatest discovery is inside you."

— Erik Weihenmayer, First blind person to reach summit of Mount Everest, born 1968

"Treatment originates outside you: healing comes from within."

— Andrew Weil, American author and medical educator, born June 8, 1942

"Absolute attention is prayer."

— Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

— Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909

"All sins are attempts to fill voids."

— Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909

"A mind enclosed in language is in prison."

— Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909

"Love is not consolation. It is light."

— Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909

"He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence."

— Simone Weil, French philosopher, born 1909