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:-

• If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

  ~ Robert Fritz quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Reason, Choice

• If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

  ~ Michelangelo quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: New, Work, Mastery, Master, Angel, People

• Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

  ~ Marcus Aurelius quotes from Meditations

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Thoughts, Life, Habit

• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.

  ~ Samuel Johnson quotes from Life of Samuel Johnson

  Famous Quotes on: Friendship, Samuel Johnson, New, Life, Friend, Friends, Should, Will

• When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Thoughts, Reflection, Think, Thinking, Katie, Work, World, Age, Thought, People, The Work

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