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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
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"In order to fulfil our life mission we also need to develop perseverance."

"Life is a personal race. Run the race of life with all endurance."

"Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory."

"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."

"A man going straight towards his goals overcomes difficulties and obstacles in his paths, and turns them into benefits."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

"The gospel of the kingdom talks about perseverance."

"Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest."

"You can strive in life with courage, faith and hope."

"One is to cross this ocean in the form of obstinacy. We are standing on this side of obstinacy and we have to go to the other side. If someone becomes instrumental in removing your obstinacy; do not be disturbed about it, consider him to be extremely beneficial and undergo that experience with equanimity."
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"In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true."


"It has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting."


"So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way."


"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."


"I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made.."


"Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!"


"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."
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