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:-

• Life is brief--a flash of lightning, a snap of eternity's fingers.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes

• Once the call of the True Self is heard not only with the heart but also with the mind and conscience there will be no way back to the way things have been. Sooner or later we will recognize that we no longer have any choice but to allow ourselves the extraordinary freedom to go all the way in this life. Because, after all, if we have begun to see through the illusory world that the ego creates and have heard the call of the True Self to live our lives for a greater purpose—what else is there to do?

  ~ Andrew Cohen quotes from Living Enlightenment

• Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

  ~ Oscar Wilde quotes

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• It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living—but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Life

• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.

  ~ Walt Whitman quotes

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