"What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do."

-- Vincent Van Gogh

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“Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.”
“Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.”
“Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.”
“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.”

Source : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1988). “Leibniz: Political Writings”, p.31, Cambridge University Press
“Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.”
“Fear overrides all rational thinking”
“This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin
“When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.”

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