Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

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• 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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Motivational, Fitness, Freedom

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• Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Anger, Empathy

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• Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Being Yourself, Inspiration, Being Single

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• Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Kindness, Fighting, People

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• To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Teacher, Art, Educational

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• There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Respect, Humility

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• The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Men

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• What we do not understand we have no right to judge

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Judging

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• Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Forever, Priests

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• Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Time

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• Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Character, Civilization, Firsts

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• The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Artist, Simplicity, Great Art

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• You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thank You

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• He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Giving Up, Fall, Discipline

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Crush, Fate, Destiny

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• The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Religious, Educational, Men

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• True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, True Love, Heart

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• As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Impossible

  Entry for July 16, 1848, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.

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  Beautiful, Angel, Men

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• Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Life, Family

  Journal Intime 2 April (1865)

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Work, Light

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• Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Running, Perseverance, Healing

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• Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heart, Self, Wind

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