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:-

• In reality, there is no such thing as a “should” or a “shouldn’t.” These are only thoughts that we impose onto reality. The mind is like a carpenter’s level. When the bubble is off to one side—“It shouldn’t be raining”—we can know that the mind is caught in its thinking. When the bubble is right in the middle—“It’s raining”—we can know that the surface level and the mind is accepting reality as it is. Without the “should” and “shouldn’t,” we can see reality as it is, and this leaves us free to act efficiently, clearly, and sanely. Asking “What’s the reality of it?” can help bring the mind out of its story, back into the real world.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Self-Development Quotes on: Thoughts, Think, Thinking, Katie, Act, Mind, Skin, Accept, World, Now, Right, Thought, Should

• Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

  ~ Carl Sandburg quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Gift, Now, Will

• Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.

  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision

• Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn’t always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

  Inspirational Quotes on: David Emerald, Power, Heart, Burning, Earth, Victim

• It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception

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