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:-

• Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep you from becoming a more fully realized person? Do you feel ashamed of what you have to do at work? All too often, the answer to such questions is yes. Yet it does not have to be like that. Work can be one of the most joyful, most fulfilling aspects of life. Whether it will be or not depends on the actions we collectively take.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Business, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Live, Questions, Jobs, Zen, Act, Work, Good, Life, Becoming, Joy, Shame

• Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.

  ~ Connie Zweig quotes from Romancing the Shadow

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Character, Emotion, Act, The Moment, Past, Reaction, Motion, History

• Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: War, Water, Vernon Howard, Mysticism, Mystic

• Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

  ~ Milton Erickson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Better

• Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn’t always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

  Motivational Quotes on: David Emerald, Power, Heart, Burning, Earth, Victim

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