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:-

• As far as I’m concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor—you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.

  ~ Andrew Cohen quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Evolutionary Enlightenment, Enlightenment, Spirituality, Development

• The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

  ~ William James quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: William James, Act, Path

• True masters are those who have chosen to make a life, rather than a living.

  ~ Neal Donald Walsch quotes from Conversations with God

  Self-Development Quotes on: God, Life, Master

• When I experience and accept myself exactly as I am, then I change.

  ~ Cherie McCoy quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Change, Experience, Act

• If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

  ~ Dr. Herbert Benson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Learn, Mind, People

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