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:-

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  ~ Dale Carnegie quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Yin, Rest, Friend, Becoming, Try, Friends, People

• You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.

  ~ Mitch Albom quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Act, Give

• He who has never failed somewhere, the man can never be great.

  ~ Herman Melville quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Risk

• …we aren’t responsibility for creating all the bad things that happen to us.  But we can claim responsibility for the bad things that happen and learn a lot about ourselves by doing so.  It all depends on whether you think of responsibility as something you are or as something you do. For us, the onlyuseful way of thinking about responsibility is as something we do. We use an operational definition of responsibility, not a theoretical one: Responsibility is an action you take, not a quality that can be assigned. A judge and jury can assign responsibility to a criminal for an act, but that criminal’s life will not begin to change until he or she makes a conscious choice to take responsibility…  The key point is this: There is tremendous healing power in taking responsibility for something right now in the present, but no healing value in looking back to the past to blame yourself or anyone else.

  ~ Gay & Katie Hendricks quotes from Lasting Love

  Self-Development Quotes on: Responsibility, Healing, Power, Action, Blame

• In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.

  ~ Rene Descartes quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Think

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