So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.” — Henri Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
