Henri Frederic Amiel

“In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.”

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

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

“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.”

“Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.”

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

“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.”

“Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”

“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.”

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

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

“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.”

“The best path through life is the highway.”

“Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.”

“Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.”