“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.”

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

It is good to 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 well done.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

I never get tired of the blue sky.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

If one hasn’t a horse, one is one’s own horse.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

The sadness will last forever.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I’ve wanted one thing for me whole life and I’m not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don’t like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.

A lot of people complain about yesterday. We have no power to change yesterday.

Instead of complaining about the valley, being discouraged over what you’re going through, know that valley is leading you to the awesome future God has in store.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.