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:-

• In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse, mysterious because there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in Emptiness, period). Yet, there it is, this mysterious impulse, the impulse to … create. To sing, to shine, to radiate; to send forth, reach out, and celebrate; to sing and shout and walk about; to effervesce and bubble over, this mysterious exuberance in the heart of Emptiness.

  ~ Ken Wilber quotes from One Taste: July 31

• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  ~ Marcus Aurelius quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Stress, Power

• To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Live, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Time, Win

• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Life, Dream, Confident

• Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though--because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes from The Private Albert Einstein; p. 142

  Self-Development Quotes on: Thoughts, Humor, Albert Einstein, Stress, Good

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