Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity.… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy… — 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
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. — 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
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it;… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — 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
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 Image
