Simone Weil Quotes

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

In my house, when I don't bring any makeup, when wearing comfortable clothes and when I'm playing with my kids, that's the moment where I feel the most beautiful.

I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.

Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need to return to our intergrity, to the way we were before we learned to speak. perfect. as little children, we are authentic. only the present time is real for us; wo don't care about the past, and we aren't worried about the future. we enjoy life; we want to explore and have fun. nobody teaches us to be that way; we are born that way.

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses itself any reaction with regard to itself or its deeds. This virtue differs from and surpasses sincerity. We see many people who are sincere without being simple. They do not wish to be taken for other than what they are; but they are always fearing lest they should be taken for what they are not.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.

I'm trying to imitate Jesus in the fact that he said to be like children, to love children, to be as pure as children and to make yourself as innocent and to see the world through eyes of wonderment and the whole magical quality of it all.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

I learned the hard way that not only do you not have to be superwoman, but it's better not to be and not to try to be. What I would like to be is just a good person - someone who tries her best and puts her best foot forward.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.

Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.