Divine Quote by Simone Weil Download Open image “It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.” — Simone Weil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Divine Divine wisdom Humans Misery Nature of man Pleasure Secret Wisdom
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel. — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is ‘suffering’ (vedna) and pain is distress as well. If pleasure is ‘suffering’, it cannot be considered a pleasure. If pleasure is enjoyed… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others. — Shantideva Copy Share Image
Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
![“Pleasure is ‘suffering’ (vedna) and pain is distress as well. If pleasure is ‘suffering’, it cannot be considered a pleasure. If pleasure is enjoyed excessively, it becomes ‘suffering’. How can it be considered a pleasure? These are all entanglements of those living in illusion [of the Self]. To…” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/63e/dada-bhagwan-31_happiness_pleasure-is-suffering-vedna-and-pain-is_487842.jpg)
