Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."
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"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."
Henri-Frédéric 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-Frédéric Amiel
"To marry unequally is to suffer equally."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"True humility is contentment."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Order is power."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"The best path through life is the highway."
Henri-Frédéric 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-Frédéric Amiel
"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-Frédéric Amiel
"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"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-Frédéric 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-Frédéric Amiel
"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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