André Gide Life Quotes

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

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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

- André Gide

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

- André Gide

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

- André Gide

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

- André Gide

Envying another man's happiness is madness, You wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

- André Gide

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

- André Gide

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

- André Gide

I do not love men, I love what devours them

- André Gide

Everything has been said before. But since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

- André Gide

The color of truth is grey.

- André Gide

Nobody dies a virgin. Life fucks us all.

- Kurt Cobain

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- C. H. Parkhurst

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

- Langston Hughes

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

- John Lennon

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

- Werner Erhard

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

- Oprah Winfrey

Take anything and everything seriously, except yourselves.

- Rudyard Kipling

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein