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:-

• The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

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• May you be in heaven 1/2 hour before the devil knows you're dead.

  ~ Irish Proverb quotes

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• Fear is a great instructor.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

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• As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  ~ Carl Jung quotes from Alchemical Studies, Vol 13, paragraph 335 (pg 265)

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