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Us Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
- Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
- Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh…
- Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral…
- Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
- Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
- Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite…
- Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
- Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
- Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and…
- There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
- Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
- Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and…
- Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
- Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.
- We only understand that which already is within us.
- Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
- Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh…
- We only understand that which already within us.
- Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong