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:-

• Within every adversity is the seed to an equal or greater benefit.

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Napoleon Hill, Great, Within

• Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

  ~ Anonymous quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: God

• Every journey has an end.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Famous Quotes on: Goals

• I embrace desires and seeking and fear and distinctions. I embrace them all but I am not bound by them, I’m not attached to them. I can have a desire, and drop the desire if it’s not fulfilled... I don’t get stuck anywhere.

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

• People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the experience of being alive.

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Experience, Think, Live, Joseph Campbell, Life, People

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