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:-

• No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

  ~ Heraclitus quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Change

• We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before “arriving.”

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

• You know what I love, sweetheart? The thoughts that used to send us into deep depression—these same thoughts, once understood, send us into laughter.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: Thoughts, Love, Depression, Laugh, Katie, Heart, Now, Thought, Laughter

• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Power

• A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

  ~ Anthony de Mello quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Dance, Music, Within, Anthony De Mello

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