Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: September 27, 1821 - May 11, 1881

Topics

PeaceHumilityTrueContentment

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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My body gets weak without truth.

Andrei Platonov

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I used to sort of consider myself a feminist, an environmentalist, and I still have some of that in me, but I've done so many offensive comedies, I'm now worn down to a little nub of... nub of an activist.

Anna Faris

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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.

Stella Young

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My experiment in money exchange was the temptation to set up a bank. The absence of any Islamic banking was also another factor in establishing Al-Rajhi Bank, which is now the world's biggest Islamic lender by market value.

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

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Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

Tony Stewart

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Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

Martin Parr

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Cheryl Strayed

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I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

Chen Guangcheng

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