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:-

• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  ~ Helen Keller quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Happiness, Helen Keller

• You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

  ~ Abraham Maslow quotes from Motivation & Personality

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Energy

• Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

  ~ Pablo Picasso quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Life

• Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

  ~ Nikola Tesla quotes from Autobiography

  Famous Quotes on: Energy, Autobiography, Effort, Compulsion, Demand

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