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:-

• If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it—purge it, make it perfect—because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile…To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Warrior

• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  ~ Helen Keller quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Happiness, Helen Keller

• Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Motivational Quotes on: Perfection, Ideal, Great, Perfect

• A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower. You didn't have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else's on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They're all different without trying to be. As long as they're unselfconsciously being themselves, they can't help but shine. It's only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted.

  ~ Marianne Williamson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Earth

• Every exit is an entry somewhere.

  ~ Tom Stoppard quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception

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