“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous.”
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
- Thomas Mann
Love
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
- Thomas Mann
Self-awareness
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."
- Thomas Mann
Integrity
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
- Thomas Mann
Courage
"Die Gewohnheit ist ein Seil. Wir weben jeden Tag einen Faden, und schließlich können wir es nicht mehr zerreißen"
- Thomas Mann
Determination
"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