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:-

• The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning one's self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one's self.

  ~ Aldous Huxley quotes

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• When everyone dreams but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from Veronika Decides to Die

  Inspirational Quotes on: Decide, War, Paulo Coelho, Dreams, Dream

• That’s the beautiful thing, that’s the secret: to want what you get rather than trying to get what you want, because that seems like a never-ending battle, and a losing battle at that. We seem to always get what we need, though. So when we want what we get, it’s really like wanting what we need.

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

• The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

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• A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

  ~ Don Marquis quotes

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