Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Creativity

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Creativity

"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Leadership

"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Healing

"and when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain there woud be no rainbow."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Optimism

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Courage

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Courage

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

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