"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
- Gustave Flaubert
Awareness
"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
- Gustave Flaubert
Balance
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
- Gustave Flaubert
Hope
"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
- Gustave Flaubert
Self-awareness
"A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies"
- Gustave Flaubert
Adversity
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"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