Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of sma... - Vincent Van Gogh

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

"It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind."

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."

"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"