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One Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
- There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
- Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
- To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
- There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia.…
- You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
- Love is faith and one faith leads to another.
- Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
- There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
- To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.
- In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.
- It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
- To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all…
- What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure…
- Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We…
- About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.
- How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively…
- To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.
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