A THREAD on timeless quotes by Vincent van Gogh giving a glimpse on his perspective on life:
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Normality is a paved road.
It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
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Normality is a paved road.
It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
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If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
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It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
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If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now.
For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now.
For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
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To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.
To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.
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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
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If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art.
If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art.
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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Do go on doing a lot of walking and keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to understand art better and better.
Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.
Do go on doing a lot of walking and keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to understand art better and better.
Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.
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And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder & more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.
And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder & more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.
