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is essential to happiness. A person is never happy until their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

is important to recognize in oneself. The man with insight enough to admit his own comes nearest to perfection.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is a thing whereby being aware of it is already being beyond it.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

, if learned too soon, prevents us from ever learning our powers.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

is wrongly generalized from the personal to the universal. Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

is essential to art. Much of the beauty arising therein comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

is not a bad thing to learn in onself, but learning your limitations too soon, you'll never learn your powers.