Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!

The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also.

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.