Simone Weil Quotes

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Use plants to bring life.

In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice.

The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

We do have a choice at the end of the day to say yes or to say no. There have been things that I have passed on where agents at the time were like, "you're crazy, why would you pass on this," because it wasn't something that I personally wanted to be a part of.

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.

Use wisely your power of choice.

O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.

Everything you are comes from your choices.

All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun.

We are always confronted with choice.

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.