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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 246.
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“Strength enough to build a home,
Time enough to hold a child,
Love enough to break a heart”
Maulidur Rasul 1434H https://books.google.com.my/books?id=P3ZODwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false, 24/1/2013
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), pp. 170-171.
On a Dead Child http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2930.html, st. 1 (1890).
Poetry
Quote about the painting 'Piano lesson' of Matisse, Van Velde saw around 1925 for the first time and inspired him strongly during the 1930's
1970's
Source: article Schilder Bram van Velde in Dordrecht, by Paul Groot, newspaper NRC Handelsblad, 1979 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)