Quotes by : Henri Frederic Amiel

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

To win true peace a man needs to feel himself directed pardoned and sustained by a supreme power to....

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

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

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

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

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility like the flint which awaits the shock of....

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

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

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and....