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:-

• It’s easy to act as if you are a weathervane, always changing your beliefs and words, trying to please everyone around you. But we were born to be lighthouses, not weathervanes.

  ~ Robert Cooper quotes from The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership & Life

  Inspirational Quotes on: Belief, Leadership, Act, Yin, Life, Potential, Light, Try

• I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment.

  ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  Self-Development Quotes on: Learn, Spiritual, Spirit, Rich

• Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Motivational Quotes on: Business, Decide, Death, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Act, Follow, Good, Life, Relationship, Achieve, Win

• By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Great, Relationship

• No follower of this philosophy can reasonably expect to accumulate a fortune without experiencing “temporary defeat.”

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

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