How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Vincent Van GoghRead
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.
Interpretation
Stay hopeful during tough times as things will improve eventually.
This quote by Vincent Van Gogh encourages individuals to maintain their spirit in challenging situations. It acknowledges that difficulties are a part of life and that what we desire may not happen immediately, but with persistence and faith, everything can turn out well in the end.
In practice
In a motivational speech to students facing exams.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.
Great things do not just happen by impulse, _x000D_ but as a succession of small things linked together.
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings β not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.
To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.
I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?
I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably_x000D_ become as ordinary as they expect you to be.
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
Being afraid on the court, means you're not confident of your skills
If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.
I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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