Quotes by : Henri Frederic Amiel

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

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will....

We must have the courage to be happy.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

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

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

How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly....

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

Order is power.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence but he is man only by his heart.