Henri Frederic Amiel Life Quotations

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

The best path through life is the highway.

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

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

Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!

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

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

Every life is a profession of faith ...

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me -- and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Hope is only the love of life.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings