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:-

• life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

  ~ Abraham Maslow quotes

• Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled “arrogant,” “a maverick,” “a Wildman,” “weird,” or even “crazy.”

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

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• My heart smiled when you kissed my lips. What a sweet surprise.

  ~ Jan Arden quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Smile, Heart

• Pay no attention to what a critic says. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

  ~ Jean Sibelius quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Critics, Honor

• At the bottom of every one of your fears is simply the fear that you can't handle whatever life may bring you.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel The Fear... And Do it Anyway

  Famous Quotes on: Fear, Powerlesness, Competence, Helplessness

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