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“There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Inspirational #Respect #Humility
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“Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Being Yourself #Inspiration #Being Single
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“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Truth #Anger #Silence
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“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Inspirational #Education #Intelligence
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“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Wisdom #Heart #Men
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“Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Music #Dream #Peace
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“Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Independent Women #Intelligent #Wish
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“For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Inspirational #Life #Success
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“Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Happiness #Moon #Shining
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“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Art #Live Life #Suffering
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“Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Clever #People #Intelligence
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“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Regret #Men #Perfect
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“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Inspirational #Motivational #Thank You
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“Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Life #Ambition #Responsibility
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“Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Crush #Fate #Destiny
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“Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Love #Quality #Charm
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“Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Men #Animal #Self
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“Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ...”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Heart #Self #Wind
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“A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Educational #Garden #Waiting
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“Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Action #Obscure #Concrete
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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.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Passion #Men #Iron
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“To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Genius #Impossible #Talent
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“Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Science #Common Sense #Experience
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“Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Reflection #Order #Doubt
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“Almost everything comes from almost nothing.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Time
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“Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Success #Congratulations #Future
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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.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Letting Go #Cutting #Men
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“Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Kindness #Heart #Dark
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“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
#Religious #Philosophy #Mean
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“We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.”
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
#Actors #Realizing
