Quotes By Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

True humility is contentment.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

We only understand that which already is within us.

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 be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.