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 greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  ~ James Allen quotes from As a Man Thinketh

  Famous Quotes on: Vision, Intent, Achieve, Dream

• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Simplicity

• Fear always springs from ignorance.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Ignorance

• There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Tales of Power

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Warrior

• If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Motivational Quotes on: Business, Success, Happiness, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Good, Life, Journey, Perfect

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