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:-

• If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?

  ~ Thich Nhat Hanh quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence (aka Areté) then, is not an act, but a habit.

  ~ Aristotle quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Habit

• Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Death

• Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Desire

• You will come to know that what appears today is to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

  ~ Gorden B. Hinkley quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Great, Now, Will

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