“We only have what we give.”

— Isabel Allende

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Chilean writer 1942

Obert Skye Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want

Source: Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want

“The world doesn’t give a damn what we feel or want. Only what we are, and what we do.”

Steven Barnes (1952) American writer and author

Source: Street Lethal (1983), Chapter 17 “Alpha-Alpha” (p. 250)

“We have one million reasons to give up. But we only need one to continue the fight; that is, we know that what we’re doing is right.”

Glacier Kwong (1996) Hong Kong human rights activist

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 38 Glacier Kwong https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-05-04/what-could-possibly-go-right-episode-38/ (4 May 2021)

“We separate color and drawing because we have to. But nature doesn't. She doesn't give something a shape, for coloring it only afterwards. Form and color are inherent properties of the object that we have got as thing to paint. If we neglect one of both, we only give half.”

Willem Roelofs (1822–1897) Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)

translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek <br class="br">(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Wij scheiden kleur en teekening af, omdat wij dat wel moeten. Maar de natuur doet dat niet. Zij geeft niet iets een vorm, om het daarna te kleuren. Vorm en kleur zijn inhaerente eigenschappen van het voorwerp, dat ons te schilderen is gegeven. Verwaarloozen wij een van beide, dan geven wij slechts de helft. <br class="br">Quote of Roelofs, in Elsevier's geïllustreerd maandschrift..., Oct. / Nov. 1891; as cited in an excerpt in the RKD Archive https://rkd.nl/explore/excerpts/219, The Hague <br class="br">undated quotes