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"True humility is contentment."
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"When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence."
"Savour a slow-paced contented life."
"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more."
"Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?"
"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
"I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism."
"Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself."
"I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
"He is rich that is satisfied."
Explore more quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life."
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