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 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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Growth, Wisdom, War, Act, Yin, Work, Best

• One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love.

  ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Intimacy

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence (aka Areté) then, is not an act, but a habit.

  ~ Aristotle quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Habit

• The nice thing about egoists is that they don't talk about other people.

  ~ Lucille S. Harper quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: People

• In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

  ~ Swami Chinmayananda quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Sin, Secret, Spiritual, Spirit, Ritual

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