Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. — Henri Frederic Amiel Inspirational Copy Share Image
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. — Henri Frederic Amiel Attitude 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
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God. — Henri Frederic Amiel Balance Copy Share Image
Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission. — Henri Frederic Amiel Life Copy Share Image
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything. — Henri Frederic Amiel Doubt Copy Share Image
The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them — Henri Frederic Amiel Democracy Copy Share Image
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object… — Henri Frederic Amiel Affection 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 Clock 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 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
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
The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Alchemy 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 Anger Copy Share Image
Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Attention Copy Share Image
Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all… — Henri Frederic Amiel Bounds 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 Animal Copy Share Image
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Atheism Copy Share Image
How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as… — Henri Frederic Amiel Accidents 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 Copy Share Image
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 Birth Copy Share Image
“He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions –… — Henri Frederic Amiel Faith 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 Age Copy Share Image
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. — Henri Frederic Amiel Ballast Copy Share Image
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. — Henri Frederic Amiel Analysis Copy Share Image
A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
