~ Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes ~

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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.

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

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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

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

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

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Unconsciousness spontaneity instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

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

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

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Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope; it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.

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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

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How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.

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To win true peace a man needs to feel himself directed pardoned and sustained by a supreme power to feel himself in the right road at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

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A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word he must be able to simplify his duties his business and his life.

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How then find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness spontaneity instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.