| "Accept life, and you must accept regret." Henri Frederic Amiel Popular Quotes |
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| "Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty." Henri Frederic Amiel Quotations |
| A belief is not true because it is useful Henri Frederic Amiel |
| A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| A philosopher is [one who] aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Henri Frederic Amiel Adages |
| A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat: that is progress. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. Henri Frederic Amiel Remarks |
| Any landscape is a condition of the spirit. Henri Frederic Amiel Remarks |
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| Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. Henri Frederic Amiel Adages |
| Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing Henri Frederic Amiel Popular Quotes |
| Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. Henri Frederic Amiel Remarks |
| Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes |
| Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. Henri Frederic Amiel Popular Quotes |
| Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes |
| He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes |
| I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past—a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. Henri Frederic Amiel Remarks |
| Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality. Henri Frederic Amiel Remarks |
| Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. Henri Frederic Amiel Adages |
| Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring... Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be Swift to love! Make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven Henri Frederic Amiel Popular Quotes |
| Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Order is a great person's need and their true well being. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. Henri Frederic Amiel Remarks |
| Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes |
| Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes |
| Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. Henri Frederic Amiel Remarks |
| The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. Henri Frederic Amiel Remarks |
| The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms Henri Frederic Amiel |
| The thirst for truth is not a French passion Henri Frederic Amiel Adages |
| Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes |
| To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| To know how to suggest is the art of teaching Henri Frederic Amiel Quotations |
| To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. Henri Frederic Amiel Remarks |
| We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. Henri Frederic Amiel Adages |
| What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution. Henri Frederic Amiel Adages |
| Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark Henri Frederic Amiel Adages |
| Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. Henri Frederic Amiel Adages |
| Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Henri Frederic Amiel |
