Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for… — 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
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity… — 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
