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“What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large.”

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German poet known for his profound poetry and epistolary works. Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry style is unique, often exploring themes such as loneliness, love, and religious faith. more

“I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.”

World Years Feelings Seems Running Spirit Fighting Passion Names Born Struggle Greater Photography Mad These Days Forty Materialism My Passion Riot

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.”

Seems Struggle Environment Strange Circumstances Training Chains Vain Customs Strongest Association Conventions

Book:The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's

Source: The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's

“I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'”

Thinking Might Pain Artist Struggle Painting Serious Fine Personality Essentials Canvas Fine Arts Fine Artists

Book:Bluebeard: A Novel

Source: Bluebeard: A Novel

“Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?”

Winning Struggle Sea Sky Bed Ease Prize Bloody

Book:The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts

Source: The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts

“My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.”

Looks Eye Struggle Caught Corners Preserves Abstract Flash Like Something My Struggle

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“There are always two forces warring against each other within us.”

Two Force Struggle Conflict

Book:The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness

Source: The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness

“He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.”

Firsts Struggle Gratitude Benefits Appreciation

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.”

“The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.”

Thinking Years Sides Events Positive Thinking Habit Thousand Optimism Optimistic Pounds Bright Side Positivity And Optimism Brighter Side

Author:Samuel Johnson

“He who limps is still walking.”

Thinking Writing Stills Action Positive Thinking Walking Persevere

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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