Top 66 Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

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.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

We only understand that which already is within us.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.