Inspirational quotes.

Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. You can search by topic or by teacher or you can just hit refresh and keep getting 5 new random quotes below:-

  • Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Conduct of Life

    Famous Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Life, Nature

  • A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

    ~ Maya Angelou quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Sin, Angel

  • In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done—and then doing it—no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.

    ~ Dan Millman quotes from Living on Purpose

    Famous Quotes on: Focus, Thoughts, Success, Purpose, Dan Millman, Feelings, Doing

  • You must be what it is that you’re seeking. This is a universe of attraction and energy. You can’t have a desire to attract a mate who’s confident, generous, non-judgmental, and gentle, and expect that desire to be manifested if you’re thinking and acting in nonconfident, selfish, judgmental, or arrogant ways…

    ~ Wayne Dyer quotes

    Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Energy, Desire, Think, Acting, Judgment, Thinking, Wayne Dyer, Act, Attraction, Expect, Universe, Confident

  • Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It is the inclusion of all color. White is every other color that exists combined. So, too, is love not the absence of emotion (hatred, anger, lust, jealousy, covertness), but the summation of all feeling? It is the sum total. The aggregate amount. the everything.

    ~ Unknown quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Love, Think, Unknown, Emotion, Perfect, Motion

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Quotes by Teachers

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