Andre Gide Happiness Quotations

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

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.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness