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:-

• There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

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• Being selective—doing less—is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Famous Quotes on: Focus, Path, Work, Rest, Doing

• Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort—expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes

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• However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth that results in the development of increasing emotional, cognitive, and social complexity.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

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• We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

  ~ Marianne Williamson quotes

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