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:-

• I’m about tearing down the monastery walls and seeing the whole world as the monastery, as the practice, as the spiritual temple.

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

• "…one cannot lodge in if.'"

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Motivational Quotes on: Action

• All great achievements require time.

  ~ Maya Angelou quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Great, Achievement, Angel, Achieve

• With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be “cool but determined” he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

  Inspirational Quotes on: Mind, Despair, Spirit

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Albert Einstein, Edge, Knowledge, World, Now

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