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:-

• If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes from The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Change, Death, Life

• So we end up with what the Buddha taught in his first teaching, which is called the Eightfold Path, when he said, ‘have Right View.’ Right View is having no particular, fixed view, which means seeing that all views are limited, that no particular view is the only view. They’re all restricted, they’re all limited, they’re all fragmented. Actually the right view is no view.'

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

• If there is something you choose to experience in your life, do not “want” it—choose it.

  ~ Neal Donald Walsch quotes from Conversations with God

  Motivational Quotes on: God, Experience, Life

• All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  ~ Arthur Schopenhauer quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Truth, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ridicule, Accept, Age

• The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.

  ~ Nikola Tesla quotes from Autobiography

  Self-Development Quotes on: God, Truth, Autobiography, Power, Great, Mind

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