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:-

• That is why from the beginning it’s really important that you learn to shift perspectives. That alone is going to help tremendously in your life. Just imagine the next time you get into an argument with your partner or spouse, and you are able to let go of your view and open up to the possibility that there might just be another perspective on the situation — her view, or his view. The moment you do that, it sets you free.

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

  ~ John F. Kennedy quotes

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• I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

  ~ Xenocrates quotes

• Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

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• Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness… Thus the yeoman work in any science.. Is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

  ~ Michio Kaku quotes

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