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:-

  • As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

    ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love

    Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Intimacy

  • The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

    ~ Rita Mae Brown quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Humor, General, Friend

  • As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing “out there” is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.

    ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

    Inspirational Quotes on: Perception, Think, Judgment, Thinking, Katie, Within, Problem

  • The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

    ~ William Shakespeare quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Love, Wise

  • The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

    ~ Thomas S. Monson quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: War, Great, Light

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Ralph Waldo Emerson Byron Katie Albert Einstein Wallace D. Wattles Unknown Susan Jeffers Seneca John Eliot, Ph.D. Walter Russell Carlos Castaneda Timothy Ferriss Mark Twain James Allen David McCullough Henry David Thoreau Paulo Coelho Abraham Maslow Robert Cooper Marlo Morgan Mevlana Rumi Tony Robbins Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Stephen R. Covey Vernon Howard Dan Millman Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Donny Deutsch Wayne Dyer Mitch Albom Carl Jung David Emerald Ayn Rand Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill Buddha Joseph Campbell Morihei Ueshiba Russell Simmons George Bernard Shaw William Shakespeare Neal Donald Walsch Anthony de Mello Henry Ward Beecher Eric Hoffer Nikola Tesla Ernest Holmes Elbert Hubbard Confucius Harry Truman Jim Rohn Eleanor Roosevelt Chinese Proverb Richard Bach Bruce Jenner Viktor Frankl Kahlil Gibran Dr. David Hawkins Leo Buscaglia Walt Disney Thomas Edison Dale Carnegie William Blake Epictetus Alexander Smith Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Mary Schmich Herman Melville Napoleon Bonaparte Martin Fraquhar Tupper Sonia Johnson George Santayana Old New York Proverb Rusty Berkus Henry James Dan Sullivan George Chapman Calvin Coolidge Martin Luther King, Jr. Dumbledore Franklyn Broude Jesus Publilius Syrus Bruce Lee Dante Alighieri The Dalai Lama Thea Alexander Don Byas Alberto Salazar Victor Hugo Tim Sanders Cliff Durfee Menander Sri Ramana Maharshi Og Mandino Tom Peters Wilhelm Stekel Abraham Lincoln Theodore Geisel Esther & Jerry Hicks Steve Pavlina Bertolt Brecht Anatole France Nigerian Proverb Jean de La Bruyere Dan Siegel Sherry Lansing Erich Fromm Steven Pressfield Stephen Covey Jim Carrey Martin Seligman Barbara De Angelis. Ph.D. Nancy Mitford Marianne Williamson Nike Stuart Wilde Madame de Stael Robert J. Sawyer Bruce Barton Renan Arnold Toynbee The Dhammapada Phillips Brooks T.S. Elliot Ken Wilber Abraham Joshua Heschel Basho G.K. Chesterton Helen Keller John Adams Junior Murchison Gay & Katie Hendricks Rollo May Socrates Jean-Paul Sartre Laurens Van der Post W. Somerset Maugham Dr. Montague Marilyn Vos Savant Woodrow Wilson Turuvalluvar Vaclav Havel Samuel Johnson Voltaire John Dewey Oprah Pablo Picasso Robert F. Kennedy Sri Ramana Maharishi Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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