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:-

• What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

  ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes

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• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  ~ William James quotes

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• All the practices — sitting, Big Mind, and so on — are skillful means, all for the purpose of building character, consciousness, and awareness so that our functioning is truly coming from wisdom and compassion.

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Live

• A book is like a garden carried in a pocket.

  ~ Chinese Proverb quotes

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