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:-

• Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back to you.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

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• "The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live."

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Philosopher

• Fear always springs from ignorance.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

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• If you miss love, you miss life.

  ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Leo Buscaglia, Life

• Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history’s greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, “I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue.”

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

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