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:-

• An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Friendship, Warrior, People

• …in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other… People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from Veronika Decides to Die

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Decide, God, Sin, Paulo Coelho, Create, Rest, Nature, Forest, Rent, People

• The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

  ~ Epicurus quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Knowledge

• By now you’ve gotten the picture. We can’t escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us in all our exciting adventures; it is not an anchor holding us transfixed to one spot.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Adventure, Now, Feel, Exciting

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  ~ Barack Obama quotes

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