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:-

• I find that so often self-realization leaves us only with laughter.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

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• What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  ~ Rollo May quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Rollo May, Try, Despair, Camus, Sartre

• It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Katie, Pain, Cause

• The truth is that love and power go together.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Love, Truth, Power, Feel

• It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity, and fear. They also have something called frosting. It seems to represent how they spend almost all the seconds of their existence in doing superficial, artificial, temporary, pleasant-tasting, nice appearing projects and spend very few actual seconds of their lives developing their eternal beingness.

  ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Truth, Live, Act, Doing, Security

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