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 not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

  ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Purpose, Joy

• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

  ~ Marcus Aurelius quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom

• The first step is the hardest.

  ~ Anonymous quotes

• Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.

  ~ Connie Zweig quotes from Romancing the Shadow

  Famous Quotes on: Work, Lies

• Don't pay any attention to the critics. Don't even ignore them.

  ~ Samuel Goldwyn quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage

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