Heart Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

9 Heart quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

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Amiel’s reflections read like a series of quiet conversations with yourself, each one probing a different tension. Though limited in number, they pack a thoughtful punch that can spark a lingering inner dialogue.

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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different…

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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and…

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Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart;…

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Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,…

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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that…

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I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my…

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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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