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

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

Drawing is the root of everything.

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

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

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.

The moment you start complaining, you are already not taking into consideration all the good things Allah [God] has given you.

God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.

The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed – they died for what they claim to have seen.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.

I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.