3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel 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.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel 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.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel 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 authority.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
