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:-

• When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Philosopher, Intention, Wise

• If you dare to take up the banner of enlightenment, you will be attacked from all sides. From the inside you will be attacked by your own mind and from the outside you will be attacked by everyone else's mind. Anyone who dares to succeed automatically presents a huge threat. If true freedom is going to survive within you, you have to be willing to fight for it. You have to have a sword in each hand at all times. One sword is for your own mind and the other sword is for everyone else's mind. You must be ready to use them. Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

  ~ Andrew Cohen quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Truth, Enlightenment, Warrior, Freedom, Mind

• All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind

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• It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author -- and not to learn it better.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

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• If you want reality to be different than what it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Motivational Quotes on: Teach, Katie, Rent, Try

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