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:-

• Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren’t important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II…Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.

  ~ Stephen R. Covey quotes from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

  Inspirational Quotes on: Habit, Management, Stephen R. Covey, Persona, The Seven Habits of Highly Effctive People, Heart, People

• Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: First, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

  ~ Arnold Toynbee quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Vision, Enthusiasm, Act, Yin, Path, Ideal, Practice

• The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries to protect its doctrines and institution instead of nurturing the evolution of consciousness. If one is not careful to distinguish the genuine insights of a religion from its irrelevant accretions, one can go through life following an inappropriate moral compass.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Self-Development Quotes on: Business, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Follow, Good, Life, Soul, Rust, Faith, Religion, Win

• False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

  ~ Socrates quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude

• …in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other… People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from Veronika Decides to Die

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Decide, God, Sin, Paulo Coelho, Create, Rest, Nature, Forest, Rent, People

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