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"Never do what the devil provokes you to do."
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Personal Development

"If you are determined to live life to the full, if you are determined to conquer in life, if you are determined to win in life, if you are determined to soar in life, you must not shy away from this particular demand. Life demands death."
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Personal Development

"Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water."
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Personal Development

"When you overcome fear, you will be strengthened by faith."
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Personal Development

"Strive to be daring and brave rather than reluctant or afraid."
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Personal Development

"Stepping out and stepping up can be an intimidating experience, especially in social situations where the outcomes are unpredictable and uncertain. Have you ever been reluctant to . . . Say "no?" Request help? Ask for a raise? Stand up to a bully? Talk about tough topics? Confront a friend or spouse? Speak up and share your opinion? Begin a conversation with a stranger? Deliver a presentation or speak in public? Talk about the "white elephant in the room? Befriend people who are much different than you? Make sales calls because you don't want to be rejected? Approach a new group of people at a networking event? Go to an event by yourself where you did not know anyone?"
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Personal Development

"Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls."
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Personal Development

"I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped."
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Personal Development

"The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter."
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"Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord."
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"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
Courage


"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."
Creativity


"There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single."
Self


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


"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."
Soul


"Where friendship blooms, life is reborn."
Friendship


"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream."
Art


"Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets " neither of us have any."
Regret


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


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