Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

“Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to ones liberty.”

“Women are like stars...only one can make your dreams come true!”

“Self-trust is the essence of heroism”

“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.”

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”

“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.”

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”

To repel ones 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 the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.

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.