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:-

• Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes from The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Life, Stress

• Smile: if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Unknown, Smile, Now

• Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

  ~ Henry J. Kaiser quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Work, Problem

• Towering genius disdains a beaten path … It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

  ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes from Lyceum Address

  Inspirational Quotes on: Abraham Lincoln, Genius, Path

• [dharma] implies support from within: the essence of a thing, its virtue, that which makes it what it is.

  ~ Eknath Easwaran quotes

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