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:-

• "Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all."

  ~ Dan Millman quotes from The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Happy

• Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

• The only way to start is to start.

  ~ Anonymous quotes

• Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.

  ~ Connie Zweig quotes from Romancing the Shadow

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Character, Emotion, Act, The Moment, Past, Reaction, Motion, History

• Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

  ~ Paul Fussell quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Judgment, Mind, Fruit, Development

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