Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Every person's every action has an effect.

Things always happen in series.

Everything is a reaction.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

... you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you have the beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.