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:-

• One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

  ~ Buddha quotes from The Dhammapada

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery

• One day I noticed that I wasn’t breathing—I was being breathed.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Breathe, Katie, Breath, Breathing

• There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.

  ~ Christopher Morley quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Success, Stop, Life

• Aristotle said, ‘Time does not exist except for change.’ The origin of the word change is the Old English cambium, which means “to become.” In other words, time does not exist except for becoming something new. What, exactly, are you choosing to become?

  ~ Robert Cooper quotes from The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership & Life

  Inspirational Quotes on: Leadership, Change, Sin, Aristotle, Act, New, Life, Potential, Becoming

• Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the byproduct of other activities.

  ~ Aldous Huxley quotes from Vedanta for the Western World, 1945

  Motivational Quotes on: General, Happiness, Aldous Huxley, Act, World, Achieve

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