A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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"Love loves to love love."

- James Joyce

Love

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not."

- James Joyce

Love

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not."

- James Joyce

Love

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

- James Joyce

Reflection

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

- James Joyce

Failure

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"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