One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. - Andre Gide
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. - Andre Gide
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. - Andre Gide
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. - Andre Gide
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so. - Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. - Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. - Andre Gide
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. - Andre Gide
Dare to be yourself. - Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide
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
The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. - Andre Gide
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. - Andre Gide
The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered. - Andre Gide