42807. “I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.” ― Vincent van Gogh November 28, 2021
42806. “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.” ― Vincent van Gogh November 28, 2021
42805. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” ― Vincent Van Gogh November 28, 2021
42803. “Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.” ― Vincent van Gogh November 28, 2021
42802. “What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.” ― Vincent Van Gogh November 28, 2021
42801. “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” ― vincent van gogh November 28, 2021
42800. “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh November 28, 2021
42799. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh November 28, 2021
42798. “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” ― Vincent van Gogh November 28, 2021
42797. “I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.” ― Vincent Van Gogh November 28, 2021
42796. “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke” ― Vincent Van Gogh November 28, 2021
42795. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” ― Vincent Van Gogh November 28, 2021
42794. “…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh November 28, 2021
42793. “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.” ― Vincent Van Gogh November 28, 2021
42791. “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.” ― Vincent Van Gogh November 28, 2021
39380. “There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger’s origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.” ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows September 21, 2021
39379. “For a dark street, sunshine is most welcome; for a wounded soul, love is most welcome!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan September 21, 2021
39378. “Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become complacent in life. They are just going through the motions and not aware of truth. Seek the knowledge, wisdom, and the understandings that vivify your existence.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush September 21, 2021
39377. “And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to music, riding my bicycle, I catch myself feeling, in a way that’s as old as I am but suddenly seems unfamiliar, light. I have felt so heavy for so long. At first I felt odd- as if I shouldn’t be feeling this lightness, that familiar little catch of pleasure in the heart which is inexplicable, though a lovely passage of notes or the splendidly turned petal of a tulip has triggered it. It’s my buoyancy, part of what keeps me alive: happy, suddenly with the concomitant experience of a sonata and the motion of the shadows of leaves. I have the desire to be filled with sunlight, to soak my skin in as much of it as I can drink up, after the long interior darkness of this past season, the indoor vigil, in this harshest and darkest of winters, outside and in.” ― Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast: A Memoir September 21, 2021
39376. “To say goodbye, is to die a little. To say good morning, is a hope for a new sunshine in a cloudy winter.” ― Nabil TOUSSI September 21, 2021
39375. “Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously…” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables September 21, 2021
39374. “I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God’s reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy September 21, 2021
39373. “While she was light and sunshine, he was nothing but clouds and darkness.” ― Victoria Michaels, Trust in Advertising September 21, 2021
39372. “We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald September 21, 2021
39370. “Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year September 21, 2021
39369. “She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?” ― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants September 21, 2021
39368. “I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors.” ― Kimberly Novosel, Loved September 21, 2021
39367. “Just living isn’t enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” -Hans Christian Anderson” ― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well September 21, 2021
39366. “Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered…sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks…” ― Ray Bradbury September 21, 2021
39365. “The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.” ― Dan Simmons, Drood September 21, 2021