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:-

• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  ~ Leo Tolstoy quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection

• Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

  ~ Fanny Burney quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Happiness

• Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector—mind—rather than the projected. It’s like when there’s a piece of lint on a projector’s lens. We think there’s a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it’s futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Change, Think, War, Sin, Katie, Yin, Work, Suffering, Mind, Suffer, Give, Try, Joy, Time, World, Beginning, Problem, Age, Cause, Happy, People, The Work

• Don't think you are, know you are.

  ~ Morpheus quotes from The Matrix

  Self-Development Quotes on: Think

• It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

  ~ Abraham Maslow quotes from Motivation & Personality

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Risk, Fear

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