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 only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Fear, Failure, Achieve, Dream

• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  ~ Anais Nin quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Risk, Anais Nin, Pain

• We can’t control the world, but we can control our reactions to it.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Fear, Act, Control, Reaction, World, Feel

• Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it…

  ~ Buddha quotes

• You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman.

  ~ Max Lucado quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Master, Earth

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