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:-

• Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

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• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Interconnectedness, Life, Power

• Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

  ~ John Ruskin quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Genius, Power, Skin, Superior

• Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. The worst!

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

  Self-Development Quotes on: Health, Secret, Mind

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