Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm… — Henri Frederic Amiel Chocolate Copy Share Image
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. — Henri Frederic Amiel Communication Copy Share Image
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. — Henri Frederic Amiel Educational Copy Share Image
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Accepting Copy Share Image
“Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!” — Henri Frederic Amiel Life Copy Share Image
“An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.” — Henri Frederic Amiel Dangerous 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 Activity Copy Share Image
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful. — Henri Frederic Amiel Earth Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born… — Henri Frederic Amiel Advantage Copy Share Image
At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to… — Henri Frederic Amiel Bottom Copy Share Image
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an… — Henri Frederic Amiel Art Copy Share Image
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go… — Henri Frederic Amiel Better future Copy Share Image
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. — Henri Frederic Amiel Compassion Copy Share Image
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things. — Henri Frederic Amiel Causes 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 Art Copy Share Image
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power. — Henri Frederic Amiel Command Copy Share Image
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. — Henri Frederic Amiel Destiny Copy Share Image
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from… — Henri Frederic Amiel Apology Copy Share Image
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will… — Henri Frederic Amiel Able 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 Ears Copy Share Image
There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Accepting Copy Share Image
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past — Henri Frederic Amiel Inspirational Copy Share Image
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through… — Henri Frederic Amiel Bottom Copy Share Image
