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:-

• The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

  ~ Arthur C. Clarke quotes

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• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

  ~ Rollo May quotes

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• You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

  ~ Abraham Maslow quotes from Motivation & Personality

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• To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

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• Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.

  ~ Eric Butterworth quotes

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