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 will also 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.

Vincent van Gogh

Dear Theo: The Autobiography of

Shared by Liz Wessel

Van Gogh "Cypresses" Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art website