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:-

• No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• We have committed the golden rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

  ~ Edwin Markham quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: The Golden Rule, Life, Commit, Gold

• Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.

  ~ Edward J. Koch quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Confidence, Change, War, Decisions, Decision, Believe

• I once knew a man who said death is always smiling at all of us. All a man can do is smile back.

  ~ Maximus quotes from Gladiator

  Motivational Quotes on: Death, Smile, New

• Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothings others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

  ~ Don Miguel Ruiz quotes

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