Andre Gide

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

André Gide

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labor of peace.

André Gide

It’s madness to envy other people’s happiness. Happiness doesn’t come of the peg, it has to be made to measure.

André Gide

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

André Gide

Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom.

André Gide

Long only for what you have.

André Gide

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

André Gide

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

André Gide

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

André Gide

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

André Gide