Whether you are in love or falling in love, there’s just something about love that makes us all want to turn to the sages for some quotes about love to explain our condition.

Here are some of the quirkiest quotes about love we could find from the lovers, the poets, the philosophers, the literary geniuses, and even the scientists among us. Instead of chocolates, give your special Valentine the words of love.

20 Offbeat Quotes About Love

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. – Albert Einstein

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. – Audrey Hepburn

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. – Charles M. Schulz

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – Erich Fromm

Love is space and time measured by the heart. – Marcel Proust

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.  – Dr. Seuss

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.

“Pooh!” he whispered.

“Yes, Piglet?”

“Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw.

“I just wanted to be sure of you.” – A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. – Maya Angelou

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. – Ken Kesey

The course of true love never did run smooth. – William Shakespeare

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. –  Zelda Fitzgerald

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.  – Oscar Wilde

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. –  Friedrich Nietzsche

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – Zora Neale Hurston

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost

Who loves, raves. – Lord Byron

My dear,  find what you love and let it kill you. – Charles Bukowski

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. – Tom Robbins

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The following 17 inspirational quotes about the beach and ocean are as soulful as they are playful, underlining the fixation we all have with this natural wonder.

It’s time to plan your next vacation to the beach, but you may need a few words of motivation before you book your tickets and hotel room. Whether you consider yourself a beach person or not, these quotes about the beach are sure to remind you of its inherent beauty and necessity in your life.

Quotes About the Beach:

1. “Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.” – Michelle Held
2. “Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard.” – Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
3. “To me, the sea is like a person — like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there.” – Gertrude Ederle
4. “When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
5. “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.” – Kate Chopin
6. “In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” – Rachel Carson
7. “After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. Pam Shaw
8. “The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.” – Beyoncé Knowles
9. “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.” – John F. Kennedy
10. “Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach. Robert Black
11. “Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth. Heinrich Zimmer
12. “The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Jacques Cousteau
13. “I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.” – Helen Keller
14. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
15. “The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” – Jill Davis
16. “The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen
17. “As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love.” – Unknown

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Commitment quotes to keep you on track – at work, at home, at life.

Whether you’re committing yourself to a career, a partner, or (gasp!) both, it’s a comforting, terrifying, and fulfilling process. Here are 30 commitment quotes to keep you rocking at life:

1. ”Commitment is an act, not a word.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
2. ”Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it’s a relationship, a business or a hobby.” -Neil Strauss
3. ”Seems to me that there is a fine line between insanity and dedication… I call that line commitment.” -Jeremy Aldana
4. ”If you can’t value a commitment made by someone else, your own commitments lose their value too.” -Ram Mohan
5. ”Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.” -Yoda
6. ”The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.” -Martina Navratilova
7. ”When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.” -A.R. Rahman
8. ”Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.” -James Allen
9. ”The time to hesitate is through.” -Jim Morrison
10. ”It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.” -Ralph Ellison
11. ”The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.” -Rollo May
12. ”Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” -Stephen King
13. ”All great achievements require time.” -Maya Angelou
14. ”I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.” -Mia Hamm
15. ”Don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.” -Clint Eastwood
16. ”You always have two choices: Your commitment versus your fear.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.
17. ”Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” -Mario Andretti
18. ”You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” -Margaret Thatcher
19. ”Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.” -Bill Blackman
20. ”Anyone can dabble, but once you’ve made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it’s very hard for people to stop you.” -Bill Cosby
21. ”Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” -Tony Robbins
22. ”I’ve never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.” -Charles F. Kettering
23. ”It’s always too early to quit.” -Norman Vincent Peale
24. ”I am easily satisfied with the very best.” -Winston Churchill
25. ”I like villains because there’s something so attractive about a committed person – they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They’re motivated.” -Russell Crowe
26. ”If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.” -Dick Vermeil
27. ”Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, ‘I will do better tomorrow.’” -Brigham Young
28. ”The resolved mind hath no cares.” -George Herbert
29. ”Only do what your heart tells you.” -Princess Diana
30. ”Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau

What are your favorite commitment quotes?

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ColumnThese are food quotes that remind you why you love eating and cooking.

I have a few food quotes I always come back to. Words that remind me of why I love to make and eat food. Why I love to sharing food with others. We all have to eat; food is the building block of humanity.

If you need a little inspiration for cooking and sharing, this is it. Print them all out, hang them on the kitchen wall, and keep fighting the good food fight!

1. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” – Frank Lebowitz

2. “This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.” – Mark Bittman

3. “If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.” – Cesar Chavez

4. “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces — just good food from fresh ingredients.” – Julia Child

5. “If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce” and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?” – Ymber Delecto

6. “We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.” – Epicurus

7. “If you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.” – Kahlil Gibran

8. “Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” – Voltaire

9. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” -Virginia Woolf

10. “What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?” – Lin Yutang

11. “The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.” – Samuel Chamberlain

12. “Laughter is brightest in the place where food is.” – Irish Proverb

13. “Let things taste the way they are.” – Alice Waters

14. “This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain’t normal.” – Joel Salatin

15. ““The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” – Ann Wigmore

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Inspirational quotes to overcome fear, take a leap of faith and and pursue courageousness. 

Whether we’re starting a new job, prepping for a difficult conversation or just in need of an extra push to get us out of our comfort zone, we all need a little extra courage. No matter what you’re doing, here are 22 inspirational quotes to motivate you and inspire your courageous side.

1. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. -Nelson Mandela

2. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? -Vincent Van Gogh

3. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ -Eleanor Roosevelt

4. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. -John F. Kennedy

5. From caring comes courage. -Lao Tzu

6. One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. -Maya Angelou

7. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. -Coco Chanel

8. Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. -Confucius

9. I think my mother… made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected. -Caroline Kennedy

10. We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

11. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. -Anais Nin

12. Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. –Susan Gale

13. Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. -Thomas Szasz

14. If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.-John Maxwell

15. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -Mark Twain

16. To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. -Soren Kierkegaard

17. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca

18. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. –Mark Twain

19. Optimism is the foundation of courage. -Nicholas Murray Butler

20. Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. -Arthur Koestler

21. Courage is grace under pressure. -Ernest Hemingway

22. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. -Winston Churchill

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Here are 15 inspirational quotes about tea that prove it is more than a hot drink.

If you are anything like me, tea is a sacred part of your day. I love to try out the various herbal tea concoctions available at my local grocery store and nothing sets me straighter than a warm tea sweetened lightly with stevia or honey. Whether beside the computer as I get to business or within arms reach as I indulge in a book, tea sets the mood and is more than just a delight for the lips – it’s an inspiration.

1. A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. –Eleanor Roosevelt
2. When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over. -Audrey Hepburn
3. Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. -Alice Walker
4. Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. -Henry James
5. You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C.S. Lewis
6. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. -Abraham Lincoln
7. I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. -Wilkie Collins
9. A cup of tea would restore my normality. -Douglas Adams
10. When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment? -Muriel Barbery
11. If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are excited, it will calm you. -William Ewart Gladstone
12. Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea. -Mary Elizabeth Braddon
14. There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. -Lin Yutang
15. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. -Kakuzō Okakura

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The Revenge of the Nerds is complete! It’s officially cool to be good at science, obsessed with technology, and adorned in black rimmed glasses. In celebration, here are 21 inspirational quotes for the geek in all of us.

1. “Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.” —Bill Gates

2. “Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back

3. “So you’re a little weird? Work it! Different? Own it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!”—Mandy Hale

4. “Everyone’s a nerd inside. I don’t care how cool you are.”—Channing Tatum

5. “Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people’s judgment.”—Zachary Levi

6. “In Europe they call geeks ‘smart people,’ and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn’t value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.” —James Marsters

7. “Being a geek is a great thing. I think we’re all geeks. Being a geek means you’re passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything.” –Masi Oka

8. “Luckily, growing up “unfinished” can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don’t have to be finished to be awesome.” –Stephen H. Segal, “Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture”

9. “You know that passage in the Bible that says, ‘And the meek shall inherit the Earth’? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier”

10. “Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?” ― John Green

11. “Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

12. “…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”― John Green

13. When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it’s a point of pride in a weird way. —J.J. Abrams

14. “A lot of nerds aren’t aware they’re nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, ‘I speak Klingon – who am I fooling? You win! I’m just gonna openly like what I like.’ Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.” —Patton Oswalt

15. “Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.” –Chris Hardwick

16. “The nerds are my favourite sort of boys – any guy with a passion – whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it’s super sweet and it’s very attractive for a female.” —Teresa Palmer

17. “Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.”― John Green

18. “Never apologize for being nerdy, because un-nerdy people never apologize for being assholes.”― John Barrowman

19. “Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.”― Simon Pegg

20. “Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be— EXTRAORDINARY.”  ― Shannon L. Alder

21. “A person who does many things differently and often independently makes perhaps the biggest difference of the highest significance for the greatest excellence in everyone’s life.” ― Anuj Somany

Do you know of some geeky inspirational quotes that belong on this list? Share them in a comment!

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If you’re not weird, you’re lying. Here’s a round-up of inspirational quotes for the beautiful freaks in the house. You’re welcome.

1. A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. –Seneca
2. Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. –St. Francis De Sales
3. Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd. –Anonymous
4. I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. –Mahatma Gandhi
5. Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out? –Oliver James
6. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. –Mark Twain
8. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. –Marilyn Monroe
9. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. –Maya Angelou
10. Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. –Allen Ginsberg
11. Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else –Judy Garland
12. If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it. – Frank Zappa
13. A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants. –Coco Chanel
14. Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are. –Lady Gaga
15. Be Yourself – not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be. –Henry David Thoreau
16. Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. –Brian Tracy
17. Never dull your shine for somebody else. –Tyra Banks
18. You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant? –Dr. Seuss
19. Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for. –Oliver James
20. Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got. –Janis Joplin
21. Find out who you are and do it on purpose. –Dolly Parton
22. We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us. –Virginia Satir
23. Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. –Kongzi
24. When one is pretending the entire body revolts. –Anaïs Nin
25. Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are. –Kurt Cobain
26. Where’s your will to be weird? –Jim Morrison
27. I’m the pink sheep in the family. –Alexander McQueen
28. I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it. –Johnny Depp
29. Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own. –Angelina Jolie
30. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in. –Janeane Garofalo
31. I am not afraid… I was born to do this. –Joan of Arc

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37 inspirational quotes on creativity to feel your soul.

1. We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. -Kurt Vonnegut

2. You don’t have to be “a creative” to be creative. –Drory Ben-Menachem

3. Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. -James Russell Lowell

4. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. -John Updike

5. Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables. -Bruce Hershensohm

6. The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. -Rainer Maria Rilke

7. Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -Albert Einstein 

8. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -Jonh Steinbeck

9. True creativity often starts where language ends. -Arthur Koestler 

10. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.  -Carl Jung

11. The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. -Pablo Picasso

12. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. –Dee Hock

13. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, the just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. -Steve Jobs

14. Dance first, think later. -Samuel Beckett

15. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -Scott Adams

16. 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. -Marianne Williamson

17. Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. -Anne Sexton

18. Nothing is impossible. The world itself says “I’m Possible”! -Audrey Hepburn

19. Minimalism is not a lack of something. It’s simply the perfect amount of something. -Nicholas Burroughs

20. Creativity is intelligence having fun. -Albert Einstein

21. If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. -Marc Chagall

22. The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen. -Carl Ally

23. That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. -Ray Bradbury

24. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. -George Lois

25. Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it. -Salvador Dali

26. If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent van Gogh

27. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. –Ayn Rand

28. There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. -Edward de Bono

29. You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. -Jack London

30. Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. -William Plomer

31. To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. -Osho

32. I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. -John Cage

33. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. -Joseph Chilton Pierce

34. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. -Maya Angelou

35. A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. –Gerald G. Jampolsky

36. When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity. -Linda Naiman

37. Find something only you can say. -James Dickey

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Without a doubt, one of the easiest ways to spruce up your space is to add colorful and interesting prints to your walls. And what better way to do that than by choosing inspirational word art prints? This is by far one of our favorite home trends of the moment. Not only can you add some visual interest to your walls, but you can add some inspiration, verve and moxie to your day—every day! 

Whether your particular design aesthetic leans towards screenprints, letterpress, giclee or lithographic prints, inspirational word art prints work in your bedroom, office, kitchen, bathroom— or any nook and corner that needs a little love, lightness and inspiration. They’re also an uplifting addition to your cube at work.

Here’s 17 of our favorite inspirational word art prints to bring some creativity, inspiration and joy into your home or workspace.

1. “The Happiest People Are Not the Ones Who Have Everything. They Are the Ones Who Make the Best of Everything”

Image: Cheyenne Lyons Design

2. “Do Not Go Where the Path May Lead, Go Instead Where There Is No Path and Leave a Trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image: Jane And Company Design

3. ”Touch the Sky”

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4.  “When Nothing Is Sure, Everything Is Possible” – Margaret Drabble

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5. “Speak the Truth Even If Your Voice Shakes”

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6. “Be Here Now”

Image: William Lee Holt

7. ”Life Isn’t About Waiting for the Storm to Pass. It’s About Learning to Dance in the Rain”

Image: Mossy Jojo

8. “Not All Who Wander are Lost”

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9. “You Are Never Too Old to Set Another Goal Or Dream a New Dream” – C.S. Lewis.

Image: The Motivated Type

10. ”Live Simply”

Image: Disdain The Mundane

11. ”Life is Like Riding a Bicylce, To Keep Your Balance You Must Keep Moving”- Albert Einstein

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12. ”Home Is Wherever I’m With You”

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13. “Though She Be But Little, She is Fierce.”‘ – William Shakespeare

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14. ”Always Remember, You Are Braver Than You Believe, Stronger Than You Seem, Smarter Than You Think, And Twice As Beautiful As You Ever Imagined”

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15. “Believe You Can And You Will”

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16. ”Go Forth and Set the World on Fire.” – St. Ignatius of Loyola

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17. “The Best Thing to Hold Onto in Life Is Each Other” – Audrey Hepburn

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