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:-

• Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

  ~ Rudyard Kipling quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Communication, Power

• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure - all your life.

  ~ John W. Gardner quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Fear, Life, Failure, Power, Win

• 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

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

• How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Growth, Sin, Henry David Thoreau, Edge, Ignorance, Thoreau, Knowledge

• The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Desire, Habit

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