Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

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.

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

A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.

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

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