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:-

• 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)

  Self-Development Quotes on: Shadow, Enlightenment, Light, Dark

• What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes from The Power of Myth

• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Life

• Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

  ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Seneca, Live, Act, Time, Age

• I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

  ~ Henry Ford quotes

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