Life Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

Analysis kills spontaneity.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Every life is a profession of faith ...

— Henri Frederic Amiel

It is work which gives flavor to life.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Hope is only the love of life.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The best path through life is the highway.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.”

— Henri Frédéric Amiel

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!”

— Henri Frederic Amiel

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

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

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

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

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

Life alone can rekindle life.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

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

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

— Henri Frederic Amiel