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:-

  • I’ll tell you a way, a very nice way. Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. This realization of life can be a constant realization in your living. When you find an author who really grabs you, read everything he has done. Don’t say, “Oh, I want to know what So-and-so did”--and don’t bother at all with the best-seller list. Just read what this one author has to give you. And then you can go read what he had read. And the world opens up in a way that is consistent with a certain point of view. But when you go from one author to another, you may be able to tell us the date when each wrote such and such a poem--but he hasn’t said anything to you.

    ~ Joseph Campbell quotes

  • Who will you have to become to achieve all you want?

    ~ Tony Robbins quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Tony Robbins, Achieve

  • Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

    ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

    Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Communication

  • They have discovered that security is not having things; it’s handling things. Thus, when you can answer all your “what if”s with “I can handle it,” you can approach all things with a no-lose guarantee, and the fear disappears.

    ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

    Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Discover, Security, Feel, Guarantee

  • Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

    ~ Oscar Wilde quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Attitude, War, Persona, Personally, People

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