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:-

• Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• There is no thought or situation that you can’t put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: Katie, Rent, Freedom, Problem, Thought, Inquiry

• The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

  ~ Oscar Wilde quotes from A Woman of No Importance, 1894

  Motivational Quotes on: Life, Body, Soul, Age, Tragedy

• Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God.

  ~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

  Self-Development Quotes on: Humility, Inspiration, God, War, Secret, Achievement, Universe, Achieve

• I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes from The Power of Myth

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