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Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

“I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.”

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Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work is renowned for its vivid colors and emotional intensity. His paintings, such as 'The Starry Night' and 'Sunflowers', are iconic and have left a significant mark in the history of art. more

“One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.”

Mind May Seems Known Adventure Flower Encouragement Infinite Saint Ill Track Mysterious Multitudes Impress Petals Turbulence

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is an opportunity for spiritual evolution.”

Spiritual Opportunity Growth Challenges Evolution Encouragement Obstacles Encounters Imperatives Do Not Fear Spiritual Evolution

Author:Dannion Brinkley

“Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.”

Helping Our Lives Teaching Events Perspective Majors Tools Encouragement Helping Others Horrible Catalyst Major Change Events In Life

Author:Dannion Brinkley

“Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.”

Together Suffering Force Trouble Duty Sorrow Encouragement Brave Endurance Coward Manhood Petty

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.”

Mind Clear Conditions Anxiety Encouragement Load Tao Flexible Adjustment Clear Minds

Author:Zhuangzi

“Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.”

Men Joy Trouble Elements Encouragement Saved

Book:SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

“Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.”

Heart May Pain Joy Pleasure Accepting Sorrow Encouragement Thee

Book:Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore

“What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.”