Simone Weil Quotes

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

Anger punishes the bearer's heart. Who remains angry suffers most. For many, the search for perfection virtually guarantees it will be found, and disregarded in order to continue the search. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.

Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

I can hold on to that, that bitterness and that anger. It won't get me anywhere.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.