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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Anger, Empathy

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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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• Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Science, Society, Accounts

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• The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Artist, Simplicity, Great Art

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• Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Hope, Refuge, Uncertainty

  "Amiel's journal; the Journal intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", (p. 368), 1890.

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Motivational, Fitness, Freedom

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Respect, Humility

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Judging

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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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• 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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• 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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• Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Submission, Oscillation

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• Accept life, and you must accept regret.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Regret, Apology, Acceptance

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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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• There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Kindness, Hate, Way

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• A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Teacher, Art, Educational

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