Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
More Quotes from Andre Gide:
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.Andre Gide
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written
Andre Gide
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Andre Gide
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
Andre Gide
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
Andre Gide
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Charity Quotes, Possession QuotesWe'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
Chester Bennington
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.
Emm Gryner