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:-

• The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: Katie, Mind, Suffer, Perfect, Time, Thought, Believe

• We see the essential divinity underlying the whole of the world's process of growth, and the fundamental rightness of helping that immense work forward as best we can in the time we have… The dichotomy between self and others, between responding to others' needs and taking care of one's own disappears, as one acquires the practical wisdom to see the intrinsic legitimacy of both and the relative priority of each.

  ~ John Firman quotes from Dimensions of Growth; p. 117-118

  Famous Quotes on: Growth, Wisdom, War, Act, Yin, Work, Best

• Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.

  ~ Sun Tzu quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Change, Flow, Great

• Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

  ~ Seneca quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Seneca, Yin

• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Believe

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