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:-

• We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Unknown, Fail, Now, Problem, Right

• The best horse doesn't always win the race.

  ~ Irish Proverb quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Best, Win

• Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Life, Motion, Enlightenment

• Not a shred of evidence exists that life is serious!

  ~ Jan Marshall quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Life

• I saw that we’re all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Self-Development Quotes on: Humility, Katie, Best, Life, Doing, Time

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