Andre Gide Famous Quotes
Dare to be yourself.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
"So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity."
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
"There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'"
Andre Gide Quotations
"We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure."
John Dryden
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
Garry Marshall
The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes
"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."
Aaron Rose
"From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting."
Hermes
"Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life."
Diane Wakoski
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
Raymond Chandler
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."
Mignon McLaughlin
"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."
Carl Rowen