The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ea…

- Henri Frederic Amiel

We only understand that which already is within us.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

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

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

Love is faith and one faith leads to another.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we thi…

- Henri Frederic Amiel

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

- Henri Frederic Amiel