Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.” — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass,… — André Gide Copy Share Image
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are… — André Gide Copy Share
I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very… — Andre Gide Copy Share
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself… — Andre Gide Copy Share
“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.” — André Gide Copy Share
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! — Andre Gide Copy Share
God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved. — Andre Gide Copy Share
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — Andre Gide Copy Share
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. — Andre Gide Copy Share
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed… — Andre Gide Copy Share
“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.” — Andre Gide Copy Share
