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:-

• It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

  ~ Sally Kempton quotes

• One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

  ~ Buddha quotes from The Dhammapada

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery

• Every organism has one and only one central need in life, to fulfill its own potentialities.

  ~ Rollo May quotes from Man's Search for Himself

  Famous Quotes on: Life, Potential, Rollo May

• Every man needs to thank his faults.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

  Self-Development Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Compensation

• The Work is the end of the world as we understand it to be, sweetheart. And it’s the opening to reality, as it really is, in all its beauty.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Motivational Quotes on: Katie, Heart, Work, Understand, Beauty, World, The Work

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