Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

- Samuel Lover

I need you like a heart needs a beat.

- Anonymous

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

- André Gide

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

- André Gide

Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.

- Xunzi (Xun Kuang)

Tell me and I forget, Teach me and I remember, Involve me and I learn.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- André Gide

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

- André Gide

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

- André Gide

Envying another man's happiness is madness, You wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

- André Gide

I do not love men, I love what devours them

- André Gide

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

- André Gide

The color of truth is grey.

- André Gide

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

- André Gide

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

- André Gide

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it

- Swedish Proverb

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

- André Gide

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- André Gide

A stern creditor is [often] a poor payer

- Swedish Proverb

To write well and to speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

- Swedish Proverb

To wash a pig with soap is a waste of time and soap.

- Spanish Proverbs

It is not the hen who cackles the loudest who hatches the most eggs

- French Proverbs