Happiness Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

8 Happiness quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

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Henri Frederic Amiel’s philosophical bent shines through eight short musings on happiness. The brief format lets you dip into his thoughtful reflections without a long read.

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True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

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Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its…

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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through…

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I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself…

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Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

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Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with…

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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying…

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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

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Order is power.

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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.…

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Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling…

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from…

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Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

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The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the…

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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

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Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful…

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