Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.

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

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.