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:-

• All the practices — sitting, Big Mind, and so on — are skillful means, all for the purpose of building character, consciousness, and awareness so that our functioning is truly coming from wisdom and compassion.

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

• The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. But the second best time is today.

  ~ Chinese Proverb quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Best

• If you listen to the Chatterbox, your experience of life is fear-producing, and you stop yourself from expanding. If you listen to the Higher Self, your experience of life is joyful and abundant and devoid of fear. You, like everyone else, are an expert at listening to your Chatterbox. Your task is now to become an expert at listening to your Higher Self. Then true choice will be possible.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Experience, Devo, Stop, Life, Expand, Joy, Choice, Now, Will, Become, Feel

• Cleave a piece of wood, I am there; lift up the stone and you will find me there.

  ~ Jesus quotes from Gospel According to Thomas

  Motivational Quotes on: Jesus

• When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Experience, Katie, Stress, Kind, Life, Gift, Freedom, Become, Moment

More Random Quotes

Quotes by Topic

Abundance Accomplishment Achievement Age Angel Anger Appreciate Audacity Autobiography Awakening Aware Awareness Believe Bill Gates Bills Bliss Body Brain Breath Breathe Brilliant Cave Celebrate Challenge Challenges Change Chit Choice Clutter Combat Commitment Compassion Confident Consistency Contentment Coward Crazy Creative Critics Dare Dark Decision Defeat Demand Depression Despair Development Devotion Discover Donne Doubts Dream Eastern Ecstasy Effect Efficiency Effortless effort Ego Empty Enlightenment Evolution Evolutionary Enlightenment Exciting Experience Explore Family Feel Feminine Fire Forest Future Genius Great Greatness Habit Happiness Healing Heat Hindu Humor Ideal Insanity Inspiration Inspire Integral Integrate Intent Journey Kindness Learning Love Meaningful Miracles Mistake Modesty Motivation Nightmare Obey Pain Past Path Patience Personal History Personally Poor Positive Thinking Power Powerlesness Prayer Preparation Principles Proactive Projections Questions Rapture Reaction Ready Rules Self-mastery Self-reliance Serve Sex Shame Shine Should Solitude Spend Spirit Spirituality Stairs States Vs. Stages Stretch Struggle Stupidity Success Sustainable Tags Takers Teach Teacher The Work Try Unreasonable Values War Water Win Wise Withholding World

Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Susan Jeffers Byron Katie Wallace D. Wattles Ralph Waldo Emerson Unknown Seneca Timothy Ferriss Albert Einstein Stephen R. Covey Mevlana Rumi Marlo Morgan Joseph Campbell Walter Russell Benjamin Franklin Carlos Castaneda Mahatma Gandhi Henry David Thoreau Paulo Coelho Roger McDonald Winston Churchill Friedrich Nietzsche Eleanor Roosevelt Mark Twain James Allen Dan Millman David Emerald Morihei Ueshiba Irish Proverb Donny Deutsch Vernon Howard John F. Kennedy Tony Robbins Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Wayne Dyer Oliver Wendell Holmes Jesus Robin Sharma Leo Buscaglia Jim Rohn George Bernard Shaw Marcus Aurelius Chinese Proverb Ayn Rand David McCullough William James Thomas Fuller Carl Jung John Eliot, Ph.D. Dale Carnegie Epictetus Mitch Albom Pablo Picasso Buddha FM Alexander Abraham Lincoln Thomas A. Edison Michelangelo Aristotle Walt Whitman Confucius Thomas Jefferson Napoleon Hill Vaclav Havel W. Somerset Maugham Henry Ford Rainer Maria Rilke Thomas Szasz Horace Erich Fromm English Proverb Swahili proverb Baruch Spinoza Jan Marshall Thomas S. Monson Ira Gershwin The Dalai Lama Julia Cameron Claude Bernard William Connor Magee Samuel Goldwyn Ray Bradbury Benjamin Disraeli William Rigley, Jr. Frederick Wilcox Francis Bacon Augustine Dr. Alexis Carrel Henry James Doug Weed George Washington Carver David Mahoney Robert Frost W.H. Murray Esther & Jerry Hicks Daniel Burnham John Wooden Steven Pressfield Jim Collins Norman Vincent Peale Margaret Atwood William Shakespeare Linda Kreger Silverman Tom Peters Dr. Karl Menninger St. Paul Milton Friedman Epicurus Malcolm Forbes Helen Keller Seng-ts'an Jose Ortega y Gasset William Blake Ben Stein Charles Coonradt Andrew Carnegie Kikuyu of Kenya Proverb Soichiro Honda The Bible Martin Seligman Dutch proverb Robert Louis Stevenson Richard Bach Hugh Prather Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don Miguel Ruiz Dalai Lama Shunryu Suzuki Bernard M. Baruch Ernest Holmes Socrates Rollo May Alfred Adler Krishna Napoleon Bonaparte St Augustine Johann Wolfgang von-Goethe Teddy Roosevelt Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) George Santayana American Heritage Dictionary Venus Williams Samuel Johnson Dr. David Hawkins Anonymous Dr. Candace B. Pert Anthony Robbins James Russell Lowel John Keats Hillel