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

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage

"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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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

Creativity