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:-

• A teacher of fear can’t bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You’re the one.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Teach, Live, Katie, Yin, Teacher, Try, Peace, Earth

• You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Self-Development Quotes on: Learn, Great, Soul

• How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he had taken a poll in the land of Israel? What would have happened to the Reformation if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion of the moment that counts. It's right and wrong and leadership.

  ~ Harry Truman quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Leadership, Leader

• I’ll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: War, Katie, Yin, New, Mind, Suffer

• Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

  ~ Lin Yutang quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Light, Master, Idea

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