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:-

• There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati, the “love of your fate,” which is in fact your life. As he says, if you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing. Furthermore, the more challenging or threatening the situation or context to be assimilated and affirmed, the greater the stature of the person who can achieve it. The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes

• There's a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that; you pay with your soul. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the nerve to star in their own fucking movie, let alone direct it.

  ~ Tom Robbins quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Victim

• It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.

  ~ Elbert Hubbard quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Decide, Great, Strength

• If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? … Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven’t really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].

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

  Motivational Quotes on: Habit, Desire, Stephen R. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effctive People, Heart, Mind, Priorities, Believe, People

• The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Focus, Thoughts, Vision, Experience, War, Creator, David Emerald, Act, Power, Life, Outcome

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