Be Faithful to Yourself.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

André Gide

There’s many ways to interpret this quote, which make sense since it comes from a symbolist author (shout-out to all the English teachers who were cool with how I explained symbolism in book reports). I will choose to interpret it as an extension of last week’s quote and try to be content with who I am and not negatively focus on the should be and could be thoughts that can drag down my moral. Plus, there’s nothing about the quote that says I can’t manifest new and better things within my self, just that, maybe, I should learn to be happy with the faculties I already possess. Love thyself, and all that.

About the author

André Paul Guillaume Gide (French: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide’s career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars. The author of more than fifty books, at the time of his death his obituary in The New York Times described him as “France’s greatest contemporary man of letters” and “judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti.”