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:-

• …we aren’t responsibility for creating all the bad things that happen to us.  But we can claim responsibility for the bad things that happen and learn a lot about ourselves by doing so.  It all depends on whether you think of responsibility as something you are or as something you do. For us, the onlyuseful way of thinking about responsibility is as something we do. We use an operational definition of responsibility, not a theoretical one: Responsibility is an action you take, not a quality that can be assigned. A judge and jury can assign responsibility to a criminal for an act, but that criminal’s life will not begin to change until he or she makes a conscious choice to take responsibility…  The key point is this: There is tremendous healing power in taking responsibility for something right now in the present, but no healing value in looking back to the past to blame yourself or anyone else.

  ~ Gay & Katie Hendricks quotes from Lasting Love

  Inspirational Quotes on: Responsibility, Healing, Power, Action, Blame

• When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Experience, Katie, Stress, Kind, Life, Gift, Freedom, Become, Moment

• "Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Appreciation, Success, Happiness, Fame, Integrity, Failure, Money, Fulfillment, Happy

• I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.

  ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You!

  Self-Development Quotes on: God, Vision, Act, Create, Believe, People

• The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

  ~ Viktor Frankl quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Viktor Frankl

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