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:-

• Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death

• People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the experience of being alive.

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Experience, Think, Live, Joseph Campbell, Life, People

• If you use these principles wisely and intelligently, there can be no uncertainty as to the outcome of any endeavor, and no limit to your possibilities.

  ~ Roger McDonald quotes from Message of a Master

  Inspirational Quotes on: Outcome, Master, Wise, Principles, Possibilities

• When we feel stuck, going nowhere--even starting to slip backward--we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• All victims have experienced a loss—a thwarted desire or aspiration—even if they’re not aware of it.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

  Motivational Quotes on: Desire, Experience, War, David Emerald, Power, Victim

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