Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

“To marry unequally is to suffer equally.”

“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.”

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

“To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.”

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

“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”

“To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”

“Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing.”

“Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.”

“We must have the courage to be happy.”

“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 good and useful. ... By accepting t...”

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

“A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied.”

“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.”

“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.”

“To win true peace a man needs to feel himself directed pardoned and sustained by a supreme power to feel himself in the right road at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and...”

“Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.”

“Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”

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

“How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.”