Quotes of 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

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. ”

- Unknown

“ In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. ”

- Amit Ray

“ All worries are less with wine. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. ”

- Arthur Rubenstein

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity. ”

- Ezra

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione