Mandela quote

I grabbed this Nelson Mandela quote from a comment made on your blog by someone who goes by b... it is one that I come across now and again that resonates with me every time I read it.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?"

b also, said this...
Art for instance… The best art compels us to change ourselves for the better. Perhaps, that's what Rilke tells in his poem: art pushes us to leave the commonplace and to go in the quest of the exceptional. The exceptional is our souls' true motherland.'