Simone Weil Quotes

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Do nothing. Do nothing. Let it happen. Don't try.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

Be patient - if something is supposed to happen, it's going to happen. Whenever I've tried to force things, they didn't go right.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Everything works if you let it

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

Why try to pursue what is completed?

Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus.