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:-

• What we do naturally is we cling, we grasp, we hold on to. We are not functioning freely, not free, because we’re stuck. Buddha observed this tendency and gave it a name. He said when the mind is stuck, you’re in dukkha (usually translated from the Sanskrit as suffering). Dukkha literally means a wheel whose hub doesn’t move. So what kind of a wheel do you have? A useless, dysfunctional wheel. What good is a wheel if it doesn’t move? What Buddha discovered and taught was to free up the wheel. He called it sukkha, a liberated wheel, a freed-up wheel. That means liberation, nirvana.

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

• Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

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• Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

  ~ Epicurus quotes

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• This is my way; where is yours? – Thus I answered those who asked me “the way.” For the way – that does not exist.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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• Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

  ~ Barbara Sher quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Worry

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