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:-

• Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of oneself.

  ~ Charles Chaplin quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Failure

• A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Self-Development Quotes on: Belief, Thoughts, Katie, Suffering, Suffer, Attachment, Thought, Cause, Believe

• Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.

  ~ Krishna quotes

• We must strive to reach that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication.

  ~ John Gardner quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Simplicity, Lies, Strive

• Always try to be yourself.

  ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You!

  Famous Quotes on: Be You, Try

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