Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDEMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDEA man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDENothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDEMan is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
ANDRE GIDEI can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEOnly those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE