You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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About Henri Frederic Amiel

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Henri Frédéric Amiel (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi fʁedeʁik amjɛl]; 27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.

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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

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Order is power.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!

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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

—Roland Barthes

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Nonattachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.

—Stephen Levine

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He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

—Antonio Porchia

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Happy and content one day, / ambition and desire eat you alive the next. / It's always been this way. Back and forth, / back and forth. That's the way it goes.

—David Budbill

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There's an African proverb: "When death finds you, may it find you alive." Alive means living your own damn life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.

—Michael Meade

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