“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
5 quotes in the MindQuotes library.
“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
“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.”
“Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.”
“He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.”