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:-

• In reality, there is no such thing as a “should” or a “shouldn’t.” These are only thoughts that we impose onto reality. The mind is like a carpenter’s level. When the bubble is off to one side—“It shouldn’t be raining”—we can know that the mind is caught in its thinking. When the bubble is right in the middle—“It’s raining”—we can know that the surface level and the mind is accepting reality as it is. Without the “should” and “shouldn’t,” we can see reality as it is, and this leaves us free to act efficiently, clearly, and sanely. Asking “What’s the reality of it?” can help bring the mind out of its story, back into the real world.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Self-Development Quotes on: Thoughts, Think, Thinking, Katie, Act, Mind, Skin, Accept, World, Now, Right, Thought, Should

• When we wake up to the potential power within, our impulse is to grab it all “quick.” The more we grab, the more it seems to elude us. There is no quick. There are quick—and wonderful—seminars, workshops, books, and audios that give you tools, but they are not quick tools. They are to be used and mastered throughout a lifetime.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Audio, Power, Work, Life, Potential, Master, Give, Within, Time, Feel

• Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub-consciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

  ~ Aaron Copland quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Confidence

• I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

  ~ Thomas A. Edison quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, War, Age, Cause

• You are the effect of your story, that’s all.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: Katie, Effect

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