306 Quotes by Henri Frédéric Amiel

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities of style. So that there is no composition without effort, without pain even, as in all bringing forth. The reward is the giving birth to something living--something, that is to say, which, by a kind of magic, makes a living unity out of such opposed attributes as orderliness and spontaneity, thought and imagination, solidity and charm.

Order is power.

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

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

In health there is liberty. Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Do not violence to yourself; respect in yourself the oscillations of feeling: they are your life and your nature; a wiser than you made them.

Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.