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To help you keep things in perspective, collect inspiring quotes that serve up delicious ideas.

Here are 12 inspiring quotes for marketers and writers. You’ll discover fresh and ancient viewpoints about curiosity, inspiration, compassion, reading, writing, talent, playing, planning, naivete, categories, teamwork, and love.

Today’s quotes come from Plato, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Joseph Campbell, Buckminster Fuller, Maurice Sendak, Maya Angelou, Duke Ellington, Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, and Jerry Seinfeld.

Have a great week!

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
– Albert Einstein

“Life must be lived as play.”
– Plato

“Dare to be naïve.”
– Buckminster Fuller

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
– Dalai Lama

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Ben Franklin

“If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”
– Maya Angelou

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell

“Never get caught up in categories. That’ll imprison you.” ‬
– Duke Ellington

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
– Mother Teresa

“I’m going to adjust your perspective a little bit. That was no will. What you were using, what Michael Jordan uses and what I use, is not will. It’s love. When you love something, it’s a bottomless pool of energy. That’s where the energy comes from. But you have to love it sincerely. Not because you’re going to make money from it, be famous, or get whatever you want to get. When you do it because you love it, then you can find yourself moving up and getting really good at something you wanted to be really good at. Will is like not eating dessert or something that’s just forcing yourself. You can’t force yourself to be what you have made yourself into. You can love it. Love is endless. Will is finite.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“There must be more to life than having everything!”
– Maurice Sendak