The story of Henri Frederic begins with humble beginnings. But through a combination of hard work, creativity, and determination, he has become one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. His life is an inspiration to anyone who wants to achieve their dreams.
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Life alone can rekindle life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The man who has no inner–life is a slave to his surroundings. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The best path through life is the highway. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Accept life, and you must accept regret. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Every life is a profession of faith. — Henri Frederic Amiel
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
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. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Society lives by faith, and develops by science. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
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. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. — Henri Frederic Amiel
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. — Henri Frederic Amiel
It is work which gives flavor to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Hope is only the love of life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Love is faith and one faith leads to another. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self–love substituted for that of reason and conscience. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Knowledge, love, power–there is the complete life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice… It loves one thing only… truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Men don’t achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won’t criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them. — Henri Frederic Amiel
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always––this is duty. — Henri Frederic Amiel
If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Time wasted is a theft from God. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind. — Henri
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time. — Henri Frederic Amiel
To know where one is going and what one wishes–this is order … to organize one’s life to distribute one’s time … all this belong to and is included in the word order. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment. — Henri Frederic Amiel
We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Joy is the vital air of the soul. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh–over fear…Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The only substance properly so called is the soul. — Henri Frederic Amiel
There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence. — Henri
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. — Henri
Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. — Henri Frederic Amiel
What governs men is the fear of truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Will localizes us, thought universalizes us. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. — Henri Frederic Amiel
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. — Henri Frederic Amiel
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. — Henri Frederic Amiel
A belief is not true simply because it is useful. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee. — Henri Frederic Amiel
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel once said, “The first step is to be absolutely honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.” If that’s true, then we all have the ability to change the world around us for the better. And what better way to start than by following in the footsteps of one of history’s most inspiring thinkers? Check out our courses to learn more about how you can make a difference in your own life and in the lives of those around you.
