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:-

  • In Sanskrit, ‘man’ means ‘mind’ and ‘tra’ means ‘freeing.’ So a mantra is a phrase which is designed to free the mind... [mantras] are my faithful companions wherever I go. Whether I am on the bus, walking to the library or watching the world go by in a park, I am constantly affirming al that is good in my world through mantras.

    ~ Robin Sharma quotes

  • All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.

    ~ Tony Robbins quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Tony Robbins, Exercise, Yin, Decision, Values

  • Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

    ~ Kahlil Gibran quotes from The Prophet

    Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Interconnectedness, Truth, Life, Earth, Dream

  • Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

    ~ John Lennon quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Goals, Life

  • Man is in the process of changing, to forms that are not of this world; grows he in time to the formless, a plane on the cycle above. Know ye, ye must become formless before ye are one with the light.

    ~ The Emerald Tablets of Thoth quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Light

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Quotes by Teachers

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