Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#dark #haste #hearts #journey #kind

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#feel #i #interested #me #not interested

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#grace #learn #resign #you

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#harmony #heaven #music #our #perfection

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#desires #duty #our #powers #useful

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#humility #no respect #others #respect for others #self

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#becomes #heart #his #man #only

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#his #life is a #man #slave #surroundings

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

#good #graceful #intelligent #loved #pretty

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

#acts #beginning #completion #consist #gratitude