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:-

• The worse a person is the less he feels it.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Self Concept

• Adults gifted with perceptivity are those who can hear the flowers singing within others not yet aware of their own gifts… [They are able to] understand the meaning of personal symbols and to see beyond the superficiality of a situation to the person beneath... People who are gifted at "seeing" often seem to have a touch of magic about them... Jane Austen, Langston Hughes, Anne Hutchinson, William Shakespeare, and Henry David Thoreau are all examples.

  ~ Dr. Deidre Lovecky quotes from Article "Can You Hear the Flowers Singing?"

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, War, Sin, William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, Flow, Persona, Understand, Thoreau, Within, People

• What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.

  ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You!

  Self-Development Quotes on: Faith, People

• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  ~ Carl Jung quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Self-awareness, Self Concept

• You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Teach, Katie, Good, Try, Believe, Feel, People, Inquiry

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