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:-

• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Power, Win

• What I call “doing the dishes” is the practice of loving the task in front of you. Your inner voice guides you all day long to do simple things such as brush your teeth, drive to work, call your friend, or do the dishes. Even though it’s just another story, it’s a very short story, and when you follow the direction of the voice, the story ends. We are really alive when we live as simply as that—open, waiting, trusting, and loving to do what appears in front of us now…What we need to do unfolds before us, always—doing the dishes, paying the bills, picking up the children’s socks, brushing our teeth. We never receive more than we can handle, and there is always just one thing to do. Whether you have ten dollars or ten million dollars, life never gets more difficult than that.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Motivational Quotes on: Live, Million Dollars, Katie, Act, Yin, Follow, Work, Trust, Life, Rust, Doing, Friend, Practice, Receive, Now, Bills, Simple, Children

• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes

• If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: Appreciation, Love, God, Prayer, Desire, Katie

• Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It’s the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They’re not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Goals, Love, Truth, Katie, Work, Suffering, Doing, Suffer, Attachment, Peace, Accept, World, Now, Freedom, Right, Effect, Goal, The Work

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