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:-

• Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

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

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Common Opinion

• 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

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

• The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

  ~ Rene Descartes quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning

• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Power

• Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

  ~ Frederick Wilcox quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Risk, Progress

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