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14 Quotes To Celebrate Aquarians

The penultimate sign of the zodiac wheel, Aquarius is ruled by rebellious and unpredictable Uranus. Aquarians, born between January 20 and February 18, are decidedly esoteric, idealistic trailblazers, brilliant philanthropists, and self-prescribed loners.

Those born under Aquarius consider normalcy a death knell, much preferring to march to the beat of their own drum — and if there’s no drum available, improvisation works fine, too. Their eccentric, creative minds charm those around them, but their unemotional nature can affect their closest relationships, as they tend to prioritize humanity in general over any one specific human.

Still, their ability to focus on the bigger picture makes them invaluable leaders, influential community members, and endlessly curious, lifelong learners. Aquarians are the cosmos’ primary rebels without a cause and the friends we’d all be wise to call when we need some forward-thinking, no-nonsense advice.

Although not spoken or written by Aquarians, these quotes serve to exemplify their unique spirit, whether you yourself were born under the sign of Aquarius or you know someone who was.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus

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You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell

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Give yourself prudence and love your friends / Subway kid, rejoice your truth / In the religion of the insecure / I must be myself, respect my youth.
Lady Gaga

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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde

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The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
Ernest Becker

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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Madonna

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You’re never lonely when your mind is engaged.
Twyla Tharp

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The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast / The slow one now will later be fast / As the present now will later be past / The order is rapidly fading / And the first one now will later be last / For the times, they are a-changin’.
Bob Dylan

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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy

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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson

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My future starts when I wake up every morning. That’s when it starts — when I wake up and see the first light. Then, I’m grateful, and I can’t wait to wake up, because there’s something new to do and try every day. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis

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Melanie Davis-McAfee
M. Davis-McAfee is a freelance writer, musician, and devoted cat mom of three living in southwest Kentucky.
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