„Amar muitas coisas, por aí que reside a verdadeira força, e quem ama muito executa muito, e pode realizar muito mais, e aquilo que é feito com amor é bem feito.“
Original
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.
Context: If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. 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. Quote of Vincent's letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, 3 April 1878; a cited in The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to his Brother, 1872-1886 (1927) Constable & Co Variant: 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. As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 483
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„A acção só vale quando é feita como um exercício, e um exercício com amor, quando é feita como uma ascese, e uma ascese por amor de que se liberte o Deus que em nós reside. E se a acção implica amargura, o que há a fazer é mudar de campo: porque não é a acção que estará errada, mas nós próprios.“
— Agostinho da Silva 1906 - 1994
