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:-

• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  ~ Mohandas Gandhi quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Sin, Gandhi, Life

• Lack of understanding is always painful.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Katie, Pain, Understand

• …we aren’t responsibility for creating all the bad things that happen to us.  But we can claim responsibility for the bad things that happen and learn a lot about ourselves by doing so.  It all depends on whether you think of responsibility as something you are or as something you do. For us, the onlyuseful way of thinking about responsibility is as something we do. We use an operational definition of responsibility, not a theoretical one: Responsibility is an action you take, not a quality that can be assigned. A judge and jury can assign responsibility to a criminal for an act, but that criminal’s life will not begin to change until he or she makes a conscious choice to take responsibility…  The key point is this: There is tremendous healing power in taking responsibility for something right now in the present, but no healing value in looking back to the past to blame yourself or anyone else.

  ~ Gay & Katie Hendricks quotes from Lasting Love

  Self-Development Quotes on: Responsibility, Healing, Power, Action, Blame

• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

  ~ Anais Nin quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Friendship, Friend

• "Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock."

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Non-attachment, Power, Habit, Win

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