Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way. - Dale Carnegie
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing. - Alexander Graham Bell
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. - Alexander Graham Bell
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh
A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke. - Vincent van Gogh
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men. - Vincent van Gogh
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. - Vincent van Gogh
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all. - Vincent van Gogh
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing. - Vincent van Gogh
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. - Vincent van Gogh
Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes. - Vincent van Gogh
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh
How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone. - Vincent van Gogh
How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning. - Vincent van Gogh
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create. - Vincent van Gogh
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture. - Vincent van Gogh
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