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 include all the aspects of the self, all the dualistic voices and Big Mind, the non-dual, no-self, and I transcend them. I am also known as the Master, or the Unique Self. I am absolutely unique, there is no one else in the entire world exactly like me. I have no need to prove anything or to be special since I am special and unique to begin with. I am also known as the natural self or ordinary mind. I do not need to put on airs or a façade. I am natural and unassuming. I am unconditionally joyful. My happiness is not dependent on conditions or circumstances. I am one with whatever feeling or emotion comes up. I am the mind of Great Joy and the mind of Great Appreciation and Gratitude.

    ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

  • That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking—why the hell not?

    ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

    Famous Quotes on: Work, Skin

  • You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.

    ~ Jim Rohn quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Jim Rohn, Becoming

  • Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

    ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality

    Famous Quotes on: Vision, Intent, Warrior, Defeat

  • One day I noticed that I wasn’t breathing—I was being breathed.

    ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

    Self-Development Quotes on: Breathe, Katie, Breath, Breathing

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Ralph Waldo Emerson Wallace D. Wattles Unknown Byron Katie Susan Jeffers Walter Russell Carlos Castaneda Timothy Ferriss Friedrich Nietzsche Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Seneca Joseph Campbell Mark Twain Stephen R. Covey Confucius John Eliot, Ph.D. David Emerald Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Albert Einstein Wayne Dyer James Allen Dan Millman William James Russell Simmons Vernon Howard Leo Buscaglia Marlo Morgan Mevlana Rumi David McCullough Lao-tzu Andrew Cohen Andrew Carnegie Epictetus Chinese Proverb Norman Vincent Peale Dale Carnegie Winston Churchill Anonymous Oscar Wilde Neale Donald Walsch Tony Robbins Thomas Jefferson Paulo Coelho Jesus Dalai Lama Robert Frost Napoleon Hill William Blake R. Buckminster Fuller Michelangelo Eleanor Roosevelt Buddha Anthony de Mello Roger McDonald Ernest Holmes Alexander Graham Bell William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson Anais Nin Franklin D. Roosevelt Jim Rohn Henry David Thoreau Ayn Rand Nikola Tesla Jimi Hendrix Steve Alford Katherine Mansfield Herman Melville Alfred Adler Henry Van Dyke Madame de Stael Dr. Valerie Hunt Herbert Spencer Mary Baker Eddy Venus Williams Hugh Prather Maximus Barbara Kingsolver Lazarus Long Wallace Wattles Mohandas Gandhi Joseph Hopkinson Alvin Toffler Alicia Barnhart The Upanishads Benjamin Mays John F. Kennedy Dr. Deidre Lovecky Bertrand Russell Bruce Jenner Benjamin Zander Sun Tzu William Rigley, Jr. Anne Frank Kahlil Gibran Kent Nerburn The Dhammapada James Bryant Conant Jan Marshall Rusty Berkus Steve Jobs Gandhi Tim Sanders Paul Theroux Henri Bergson Anton Checkhov Ken Wilber Jeff Aubery Oprah Dr. Alexis Carrel Harry Truman Malcolm Forbes W. Somerset Maugham Lewis Carroll Marianne Williamson Robert Browning Maya Angelou St. Paul Bodhidharma Jim Bishop Gabriel Garcia Marquez Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Martin Luther King Jr. Arthur L. Williams Ambrose Redmoon Anthony Robbins Daniel Goleman Barbara De Angelis. Ph.D. Vivekananda Dame Rebecca West Don Fraser Saint-Exupery David Joseph Schwartz Swedish proverb Nigerian Proverb Peter N. Zarlenga Hernando Cortes Tom Robbins Lilly Tomlin Stephen King Thich Nhat Hanh Miguel de Cervantes Pascal Elbert Hubbard Kevin Kelly Marilyn Vos Savant Aristotle Sir William Osler Warren Zevon Robert Goizueta

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