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:-

• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke quotes

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• I know some people say "Keep your eyes on the prize," but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you're going to keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you've got to keep your eyes focused on the path.

  ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You!

  Famous Quotes on: Focus, Ras, Path, People

• Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

  ~ Irving Yalom quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Sin, Life

• Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Fear, Perfection, Katie, Life, Pain, Perfect, Beauty

• You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Famous Quotes on: Think, Great

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