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:-

• Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

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• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  ~ The Dalai Lama quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Dalai Lama, Act, Passion, Practice, Happy, Buddhism

• Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

  ~ William Faulkner quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage

• An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from Veronika Decides to Die

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Decide, Death, War, Paulo Coelho, Live, Awareness

• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  ~ Norman Vincent Peale quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Confidence, Success, Believe, Humble, Power, Happy

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