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 great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, “Ah Maestro, you are a genius!” Paderewski tartly replied, “Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!” What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

  ~ Eric Butterworth quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Genius, Act, Yin, Great, Labor, Eric Butterworth, Practice, Preparation, Rich, Brilliant

• If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you.  I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Courage, Kind, Follow, Bliss, Joseph Campbell, Life, People

• We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

  ~ Plotinus quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Spirit

• Become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously identify yourself with the Highest.

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

  Motivational Quotes on: God, War, Power, Great, Within

• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them?

  ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

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