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:-

  • The rain-weeping and the sun burning twine together to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh. Cry easily like a little child.

    ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

    Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Life, Win

  • No one can ask another to be healed. But he can let himself be healed, and thus offer the other what he has received. Who can bestow upon another what he does not have? And who can share what he denies himself?

    ~ A Course in Miracles quotes

    Inspirational Quotes on: Best, Miracles, Receive

  • Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.

    ~ Dan Millman quotes

    Motivational Quotes on: Dan Millman, Yin, Choice

  • People talk about the reality of their life as if it is important. And we want you to understand, it’s only the temporary indicator. Do you go to the gas station—your gas gauge is on empty—do you go to the gas station and look at your gas gauge in horror? “How did this happen? [Fun] Why, why, why did this happen to me?” Do you lay your head on the steering wheel and just sob? “Oh, look what it’s come to. [Fun] I’m finished. I’ve lived all of this life, and look where I am.” Or do you just fill up.

    ~ Esther & Jerry Hicks quotes

  • The ultimate dragon is within you.

    ~ Joseph Campbell quotes

    Famous Quotes on: Joseph Campbell, Within

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Quotes by Teachers

T. Harv Eker Ralph Waldo Emerson Unknown Susan Jeffers Carlos Castaneda Wallace D. Wattles Walter Russell Byron Katie John Eliot, Ph.D. Mark Twain Seneca Albert Einstein Timothy Ferriss Abraham Maslow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Tony Robbins Oscar Wilde Mevlana Rumi Andrew Cohen Dale Carnegie Russell Simmons David McCullough David Emerald Vernon Howard Henry David Thoreau Dan Millman Confucius Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln Ernest Holmes Joseph Campbell Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel James Allen Epictetus Henry Ford Henry Ward Beecher Stephen R. Covey Marlo Morgan Ayn Rand Jim Rohn Robin Sharma Oliver Wendell Holmes Winston Churchill George Bernard Shaw Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John W. Gardner Henri Bergson William Shakespeare Esther & Jerry Hicks Jesus Walt Whitman Ray Bradbury Marianne Williamson Lao-tzu Donny Deutsch Thomas A. Edison Chinese Proverb Mitch Albom Krishna Franklin D. Roosevelt Vince Lombardi Kahlil Gibran Helen Keller Ken Wilber Rabindranath Tagore Jesus Christ Henry Miller Eileen Caddy e.e. cummings Rene Descartes Steve Pavlina Simon de Beauvoir Greer Garson Luis Villalobos Don Miguel Ruiz Barbara De Angelis. Ph.D. John Wooden Benjamin Mays Patrick Delany Augustine Robert Joss Oprah Winfrey Epicurus Samuel Goldwyn Brendan Brazier J. Paul Getty James Bryant Conant Irish Proverb Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Cicero Emmanuel Mother Theresa Cherie McCoy Donna Cardillo, R.N. Lisa Kirk Marcel Proust Mary Schmich Vaclav Havel The Dalai Lama Socrates Elbert Hubbard Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Robert Frost Lin Yutang Morpheus John Dewey Marilyn Ferguson Kent Nerburn Albert Schweitzer Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Goethe Brian Tracy Ross Perot Dr. Petrie get author Warren Zevon Heinrich Zimmer Daniel Cohen Frank Tibolt Laurence J. Peter Bruce Barton Father Desmond Wilson Maya Angelou Eknath Easwaran Morihei Ueshiba Percy Ross T.S. Elliot Theodore Roosevelt William Blake John F. Kennedy G.K. Chesterton J. W. Teal Ralph Charell Bodhidharma Tom J. Connelly Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Isabelle Holland Jean Jacques Rousseau Neal Donald Walsch Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Katherine Paterson F. Scott Fitzgerald Alexander Graham Bell M. Scott Peck Vivekananda Ramana Maharshi O.H. Mowrer Carl Sandburg A Course in Miracles Aaron Copland

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