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:-

• "Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run -- in the long-run, I say! -- success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it."

  ~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Man's Search for Meaning

  Self-Development Quotes on: Goals, Success, Happiness, Knowledge, Student

• The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

  Famous Quotes on: Enthusiasm

• To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

  ~ Peter F. Drucker quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Learn, Rest, Forest, Edge, Knowledge, Now, Will

• To me, old age is fifteen years older than I am.

  ~ Bernard M. Baruch quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Age

• I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move. Nothing will be impossible to you.

  ~ Jesus quotes from Mathew, 17:20b-21, NIV

  Famous Quotes on: Truth, Jesus, Faith, Impossible, Will

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