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:-

• I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes from Walden

  Motivational Quotes on: Henry David Thoreau, Live, Act, Life, Thoreau, Practice

• Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

  ~ Thomas Jefferson quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom

• Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, “How do you maintain that serenity and peace?” He replied, “I never leave my place of meditation.” He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.

  ~ Stephen R. Covey quotes from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

  Inspirational Quotes on: Habit, Eastern, Stephen R. Covey, Zen, Meditation, The Moment, The Seven Habits of Highly Effctive People, Heart, Great, Rest, Mind, Master, Peace

• Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

  ~ Seneca quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Fear, Seneca, Yin

• People who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless—only they don’t know it!

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Risk, Live, Now, Feel, People

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