Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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

• Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Responsibility, Ambition

• Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Respect, Mean, Desire

• Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Independent, Independence, Desire

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