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:-

• Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment—not discouragement—you will find the strength there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures, followed by wreckage, were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: The Moment, Courage, Love, Character, Failure, Flow, Act, Follow, Joseph Campbell, Great, Life, Nature, Challenge, Fate, Fail, Strength

• The Work is the end of the world as we understand it to be, sweetheart. And it’s the opening to reality, as it really is, in all its beauty.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Self-Development Quotes on: Katie, Heart, Work, Understand, Beauty, World, The Work

• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

  ~ Rollo May quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Experience, Happiness, Emotion, Life, Nature, Rollo May, Joy, Motion

• Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

  ~ Bill Blackman quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Change, Great, Effort, Right, Become

• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Life

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