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:-

• Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

  ~ James Allen quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Goals

• I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn’t shift until it does, and when it does shift, it’s right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can’t be pushed ahead of our own understanding.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Katie, Mind, Understand, Time, Right, People, Shift

• Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Self-Development Quotes on: Live, Work

• It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature—and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning—and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Life, Achieve, Individuality

• Ships in harbor are safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  ~ John Shedd quotes

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