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122 Dutch Quotes

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Act Will Heart Function
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Empty Sorrow Strength Today
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Around Center Cycle Fear
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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Future Key Memories Past
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Burden Concern Prayer Small
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The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Enemy First Recognize Step
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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Afraid Future God Known
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Donation Duration Life Measure
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When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Away Dark Engineer Jump
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Colored Day More Night
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Heart Lost Mind Process
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Am Being Far God
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Anything Attempt Courage Had
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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
About Artistic Love More
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Cannot Hear Means Paint
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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Best God Know Love
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Disregard Duty Faith Opinion
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I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
Corners Drawings Hut Pictures
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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Again Discouragement Drawing Everything
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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.

Ashore Dangerous Dangers Fishermen
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Derives Life Own Painter
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I wish they would only take me as I am.

Am Me Only Take
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Blazing Came Chimney Continue
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

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

Advance Becomes Developed Difficult
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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Brought Done Great Series
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Feeling Important Language Listen
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Dream Paint Painting Then
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Deed Equivalent Good Picture
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There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Blue Orange Without Yellow
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Ambition Become Boyhood Men
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Become Imagination Inspiration Model
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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 done well.

Accomplish Done Lies Loves
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

How Inside Me Service
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Insight Many Master Thing
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The way to know life is to love many things.
Know Life Love Many
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I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Artistic Feel Love More
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

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

Easy Everywhere Looking Paper
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Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Always Brings Difficulties Energy
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Better Even Makes Mistakes
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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.

Am Appear Beautiful Clarity
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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Am Both Cannot Create
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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Artist Certainly Fellow Heart
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
AllThings Cause God Things
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Absence Benevolence Confidence Disposition
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Fear Hope NoFear NoHope
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Alone Consent Entire Free
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Aid Beyond Care Every
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Bad Deaf Good Indifferent
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