“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
- Kahlil Gibran
Compassion
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."
- Kahlil Gibran
Compassion
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
- Kahlil Gibran
Resilience
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
- Kahlil Gibran
Belief
"Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but not make a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
- Kahlil Gibran
Love
"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