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

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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

—Henri Frederic Amiel

Order is power.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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!

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

—Antonio Porchia

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