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:-

• Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Self-Development Quotes on: Business, Happiness, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Live, Zen, Best, Good, Results, Doing, Potential, Rent, Believe

• The day of the “go-getter” has passed. He has been supplanted by the “go-giver.”

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

• I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes from Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety.

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from The Warrior of the Light

  Motivational Quotes on: War, Paulo Coelho, Anxiety, Tension, Warrior, Light

• When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes from Everyday Enlightenment

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Non-attachment, Warrior, Effort, Peace

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