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:-

  • Now you are on the Buddhist way. Keep up your meditation, as there is no instant illumination. The mind moves slowly into this. Do not become attached to your method. When, in the course of your meditation, your consciousness will have expanded and been transformed, you will then recognize that all the ways are valid ways.

    ~ The Dalai Lama quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Dalai Lama, Meditation, Mind, The Way, Expand, Buddhism

  • We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

    ~ Galileo Galilei quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Love, Teach, People

  • Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods… So let us celebrate the struggle!

    ~ Swahili Warrior Song quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: God, War, Struggle, Warrior, Life, Celebrate, Defeat

  • The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

    ~ Viktor Frankl quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Viktor Frankl

  • When we wake up to the potential power within, our impulse is to grab it all “quick.” The more we grab, the more it seems to elude us. There is no quick. There are quick—and wonderful—seminars, workshops, books, and audios that give you tools, but they are not quick tools. They are to be used and mastered throughout a lifetime.

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

    Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Audio, Power, Work, Life, Potential, Master, Give, Within, Time, Feel

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Quotes by Topic

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Quotes by Teachers

Byron Katie Ralph Waldo Emerson T. Harv Eker Susan Jeffers Seneca Wallace D. Wattles Unknown Walter Russell Mevlana Rumi Timothy Ferriss Albert Einstein Friedrich Nietzsche David Emerald Joseph Campbell Henry David Thoreau Andrew Cohen Wayne Dyer John Eliot, Ph.D. Donny Deutsch Carlos Castaneda Paulo Coelho Lao-tzu Mark Twain Napoleon Hill Jesus Russell Simmons Dan Millman Stephen R. Covey David McCullough Abraham Maslow Bodhidharma Walt Whitman Winston Churchill Marlo Morgan Franklin D. Roosevelt Abraham Lincoln Robert Cooper Mitch Albom Anonymous Ernest Holmes William Shakespeare Morihei Ueshiba Esther & Jerry Hicks William James Norman Vincent Peale Leonardo da Vinci Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel T.S. Elliot Bruce Lee Epictetus John F. Kennedy Albert Schweitzer Jim Rohn Helen Keller Rene Descartes Michael Gelb James Allen Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Dalai Lama Brock Tully Richard Branson Sean O'Casey Thomas Fuller Martin Seligman Xenocrates Rosa Parks Jacques-Yves Cousteau Richard Paul Evans Benjamin Disraeli Buckminster Fuller Simon de Beauvoir Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tim Sanders Ralph Charell Branch Rickey Jeanette Winterson Dr. Karl Menninger Aeschylus Terry Laughlin Ayn Rand Sally Kempton Jack Kerouac Walter Anderson Tom J. Connelly Mike Maples Shirley MacLaine John J. McCloy Alfred Adler Marcus Aurelius Ken Wilber Mother Theresa Kent Nerburn Irish Proverb Richard Bergland Frank Tibolt Robertson Davies Maria Rocamora Bertrand Russell William Purkey Dr. John Demartini Samuel Johnson Vernon Howard Jimi Hendrix Rolf Potts Yvon Chouinard Johann Wolfgang von-Goethe Brock Chisholm Mark Van Doren Dutch proverb Yo Ki Malcolm X Rabindranath Tagore Napoleon Bonaparte Steven Pressfield Gabriel Garcia Marquez Dame Rebecca West Paul Theroux Tawni O'Dell Lucius Annaeus Seneca Paul Hogan FM Alexander Minyanka of Mali proverb Gay & Katie Hendricks A Course in Miracles Meister Eckhart James Baldwin Thomas Jefferson Will Rogers Swami Chinmayanada Dian Fossey Alexander Graham Bell Steve Pavlina Michelangelo Neale Donald Walsch Author Niels Bohr Anais Nin Antoine de Saint-Exupery Emile Chartier Dr. David Hawkins Abraham Hicks Mary Baker Eddy Russian Proverb Barbara Kingsolver Rita Mae Brown Pubilius Syrus Anton Checkhov Elbert Hubbard Mother Teresa Anthony de Mello

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