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:-

• Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

  ~ Dorothy Parker quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Better, Doubt

• The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he might bestow upon them more benefits than he does.

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

  Motivational Quotes on: Best, Great, People

• That's the thing about U2. The band always feels like it's coming, never that it's arrived.

  ~ Bono quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: U2

• When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Experience, War, Katie, Act, Suffering, Feelings, Suffer, Friend, Friends, Feel, Inquiry

• That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: Purpose, Katie, Stress, Work, Friend, Time, Now, The Work

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