“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers, we more than gain in fruits."
- Samuel Butler
Balance
"Friendship is like money—easier made than kept."
- Samuel Butler
Relationships
"To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."
- Samuel Butler
Reflection
"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."
- Samuel Butler
Gratitude
"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
- Samuel Butler
Productivity
"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