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 secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Individuality, Earth

• To win, you have to risk loss.

  ~ Jean-Claude Killy quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Risk, Win

• In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse, mysterious because there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in Emptiness, period). Yet, there it is, this mysterious impulse, the impulse to … create. To sing, to shine, to radiate; to send forth, reach out, and celebrate; to sing and shout and walk about; to effervesce and bubble over, this mysterious exuberance in the heart of Emptiness.

  ~ Ken Wilber quotes from One Taste: July 31

• The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries to protect its doctrines and institution instead of nurturing the evolution of consciousness. If one is not careful to distinguish the genuine insights of a religion from its irrelevant accretions, one can go through life following an inappropriate moral compass.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

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• As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend upon a separate agency to ignite them to action, and both bring helpful or harmful results according to the wisdom or ignorance with which they are directed.

  ~ Roger McDonald quotes from Message of a Master

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Wisdom, Act, Power, Great, Results, Mind, Master, Ignorance

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