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:-

• The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Desire, Habit

• The beginning is the most important part of the work.

  ~ Plato quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action

• If you can't, you must.

  ~ Tony Robbins quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Tony Robbins

• It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Self-Development Quotes on: Happiness, Great

• On this path, it is only the first step that counts.

  ~ St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Path

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