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 ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes from The Power of Myth

• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

  ~ Dame Rebecca West quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Desire, Soul, Passion, Master

• Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: Think, Live, Thinking, Katie, Good, Nightmare

• Speak from your heart and don't worry about how it's going to be taken and ask with the intention of it doing the highest good for everyone involved.

  ~ Dr. Gary Arthur quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Worry, Intent, Intention, Heart, Good, Doing

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