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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost

The scholar seeks, the artist finds.

- Andre Gide | Art and the Artist Quotes

A work of art is an exaggeration.

- Andre Gide | Art and the Artist Quotes

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it. What another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

- Andre Gide | Creation and Creativity Quotes

The world will be saved by one or two people.

- Andre Gide | The Future Quotes

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

- Andre Gide | Maturity Quotes

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

- Andre Gide | Men Quotes

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

- Andre Gide | Power Quotes

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

- Andre Gide | Youth Quotes

Sadness is a state of sin.

- Andre Gide | Unhappiness Quotes

To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

- Andre Gide | Happiness Quotes

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

- Andre Gide | Happiness Quotes

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

- Andre Gide | Acceptance Quotes

Long only for what you have.

- Andre Gide | Forgiveness Quotes

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

- Andre Gide | Forgiveness Quotes

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

- Andre Gide | Prayer Quotes

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

- Andre Gide | Self-Acceptance Quotes

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

- Andre Gide | One Day Quotes

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

- Andre Gide | The Present Quotes

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

- Andre Gide | The Present Quotes

In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

- Andre Gide | The Present Quotes

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

- Andre Gide | The Present Quotes

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

- Andre Gide | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

- Andre Gide | Right Quotes

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

- Andre Gide | Right Quotes

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

- Andre Gide | Right Quotes

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

- Andre Gide | Goals Quotes

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

- Andre Gide | Goals Quotes

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

- Andre Gide | Success and Happiness Quotes

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

- Andre Gide | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

- Andre Gide | Concentration Quotes

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

- Andre Gide | Self-Pity Quotes