Andre Gide

Dare to be yourself.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

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.

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

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

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

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

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.'

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

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

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

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.

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.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.