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:-

• Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

  ~ Roger McDonald quotes from Message of a Master

  Self-Development Quotes on: Progress, Intensity, Master, Give

• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

  ~ Rollo May quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Experience, Happiness, Emotion, Life, Nature, Rollo May, Joy, Motion

• To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

  ~ Connie Zweig quotes from Romancing the Shadow

  Motivational Quotes on: Growth, War, Sin, Acting, Act, Expand

• All the practices — sitting, Big Mind, and so on — are skillful means, all for the purpose of building character, consciousness, and awareness so that our functioning is truly coming from wisdom and compassion.

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

• I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be.

  ~ Roger McDonald quotes from Message of a Master

  Motivational Quotes on: Life, Master, Destiny

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