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This is a collection of quotes by famous people and brilliant minds that we have been crafting for some time now.  It includes quotations from Socrates to Rumi and Mark Twain, and many, many more.  They don’t fall in one category but are rather a mixed bag of useful, playful, and positive quotes.  Feel free to share them, on your Facebook timeline or on your favorite social medium.
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Inspirational quotes by George R. R. Martin

• Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. George R.R. Martin
• Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. George R.R. Martin

• Fear cuts deeper than swords. George R.R. Martin
• Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. George R.R. Martin
• When you play a game of thrones you win or you die. George R.R. Martin
• Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. George R.R. Martin
• The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that. George R.R. Martin
• It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise. George R.R. Martin
• People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up. George R.R. Martin
• Laughter is poison to fear. George R.R. Martin

• We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously. George R.R. Martin
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• Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I’ll sleep more easily by night. George R.R. Martin

Inspirational Quotes by Leo Buscaglia

• Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Leo Buscaglia
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• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia

• The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position. Leo Buscaglia
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia
• Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. Leo Buscaglia
• To love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing. Leo Buscaglia, Living Loving and Learning
• Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. Leo Buscaglia
• Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia
• …the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must “feel” something … or they couldn’t possibly hate. Therefore, there’s some way in which I can get to them. Leo Buscaglia
• Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life. Leo Buscaglia
• Don’t walk in my head with your dirty feet. Leo Buscaglia

Inspirational Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.  F. Scott Fitzgerald
• There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Inspirational Quotes by Pythagoras

• As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. Pythagoras
• There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres. Pythagoras

• Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. Pythagoras
• Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men. Pythagoras
• In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. Pythagoras
• The oldest, shortest words— “yes” and “no”— are those which require the most thought. Pythagoras
• A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child. Pythagoras
• No man is free who cannot control himself. Pythagoras
• Above all things, respect yourself. Pythagoras
• Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. Pythagoras

Inspirational Quotes By Socrates

• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates
• There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. Socrates
• No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. Socrates
• Every action has its pleasures and its price. Socrates

• Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Socrates
• To find yourself, think for yourself. Socrates
• Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. Socrates
• Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates
• By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. Socrates
• Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant. Socrates
• He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. Socrates
• The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. Socrates

Inspirational Quotes by Sophocles

• One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Sophocles
• Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. Sophocles

• All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is being selfish. Sophocles, Antigone
• The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. Sophocles
• One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been. Sophocles
• Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. Sophocles, Antigone
• To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
• A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind. Sophocles, Antigone
• If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate. Sophocles, Ajax
• Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

Inspirational Quotes By Mark Twain

• If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain
• Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain

• The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. Mark Twain
• Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well. Mark Twain
• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain
• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twain
• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
• Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.  Mark Twain
• Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
• Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. Mark Twain
• Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it. Mark Twain
• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. Mark Twain

Inspirational Quotes by Epicurus

• Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus
• Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
  Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
  Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
  Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
  Epicurus

• Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. Epicurus
• He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing . Epicurus
• Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. Epicurus, A Guide To Happiness
• The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. Epicurus
• You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. Epicurus
• It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. Epicurus
• It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. Epicurus
• I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. Epicurus

Inspirational Quotes by Martin Luther

• Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther
• We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone. Martin Luther
• If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. Martin Luther

• My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. Martin Luther
• The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest. Martin Luther
• True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue. Martin Luther
• Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. Martin Luther
• You have as much laughter as you have faith. Martin Luther
• Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly. Martin Luther
• Beer is made by men, wine by God. Martin Luther
• Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Martin Luther
• God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. Martin Luther

Inspirational Quotes by Bertrand Russel

• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell
• The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell

• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.  Bertrand Russell
• I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell
• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell
• In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell
• A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. Bertrand Russell
• Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them. Bertrand Russell
• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
• My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. Bertrand Russell
• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell
• It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. Bertrand Russell
• The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. Bertrand Russell

Inspirational Quotes by Plato

• Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. Plato
• Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. Plato
• We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato

• You should not honor men more than truth. Plato
• Only the dead have seen the end of war. Plato
• The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato
• Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. Plato
• According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. Plato, The Symposium
• Love is a serious mental disease. Plato, Phaedrus
• The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings. Plato
• There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. Plato
• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato
• Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil. Plato
• The measure of a man is what he does with power. Plato

Inspirational Quotes by Francis Bacon

• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon
• There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon
• Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. Francis Bacon

• Wonder is the seed of knowledge. Francis Bacon
• Money is a great servant but a bad master. Francis Bacon
• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. Francis Bacon
• Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. Francis Bacon
• It is impossible to love and be wise. Francis Bacon
• There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Francis Bacon
• The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. Francis Bacon
• If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted. Francis Bacon
• If a serpent wants to become a dragon, it must eat itself. Francis Bacon
• The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. Francis Bacon
• Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around. Francis Bacon, The Essays

Inspirational Quotes by Rumi

• Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
  and rightdoing there is a field.
  I’ll meet you there.
  When the soul lies down in that grass
  the world is too full to talk about. Jalaluddin Rumi
• The wound is the place where the Light enters you. Jalaluddin Rumi

• Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Jalaluddin Rumi
• If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? Jalaluddin Rumi
• When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Jalaluddin Rumi
• Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Jalaluddin Rumi
• Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Jalaluddin Rumi
• Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. Jalaluddin Rumi
• Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.  Jalaluddin Rumi
• Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.  Jalaluddin Rumi
• Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.  Jalaluddin Rumi
• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
  There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
  You feel it, don’t you?
  Jalaluddin Rumi
• Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. Jalaluddin Rumi
• Travel brings power and love back into your life. Jalaluddin Rumi
• Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames Jalaluddin Rumi
• Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Jalaluddin Rumi

Inspirational Quotes by Gautama Buddha

• Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Gautama Buddha
• However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? Gautama Buddha
• There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. Gautama Buddha

• No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Gautama Buddha, Sayings Of Buddha
• All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon…. If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him. Gautama Buddha
• You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger. Gautama Buddha
• If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. Gautama Buddha
• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Gautama Buddha
• Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful. Gautama Buddha
• There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path. Gautama Buddha
• Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Gautama Buddha
• If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another. Gautama Buddha
• A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise. Gautama Buddha

Inspirational Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

• Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche
• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche
• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche
• And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

• You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be minds. Friedrich Nietzsche
• When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. Friedrich Nietzsche
• You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche
• There are no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche
• In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche
• No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. Friedrich Nietzsche
• I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. Friedrich Nietzsche

• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Inspirational Quotes by Mae West

• There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out. Mae West
• There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out. Mae West
• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from. Mae West

• Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. Mae West
• I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. Mae West
• Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. Mae West
• It is better to be looked over than overlooked. Mae West
• Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. Mae West
• Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present. Mae West
• Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Mae West

• Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! Mae West
• All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. Mae West
• Don’t cry for a man who’s left you–the next one may fall for your smile. Mae West
• When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.  Mae West
• Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. Mae West

• I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing. Mae West
• A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up. Mae West
• Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution. Mae West
• I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it. Mae West

Inspirational Quotes by Audrey Hepburn

• Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible! Audrey Hepburn
• Paris is always a good idea. Audrey Hepburn
• The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters. Audrey Hepburn
• Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it. Audrey Hepburn
• The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years. Audrey Hepburn

• I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky. Audrey Hepburn
• If I get married, I want to be very married. Audrey Hepburn
• Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once. Audrey Hepburn
• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn
• 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
• If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. Audrey Hepburn
• I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. Audrey Hepburn
• I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles. Audrey Hepburn
• I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person. Audrey Hepburn

Inspirational Quotes by Albert Camus

• Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus
• Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
  Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
  Walk beside me… just be my friend Albert Camus
• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus
• In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus

• Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. Albert Camus
• Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus
• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus

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