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:-

• Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general.

  ~ Abraham Maslow quotes from Motivation & Personality

  Motivational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection

• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  ~ Bertrand Russell quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Belief, Work, Break

• Fear of particular situations dissolved when I finally confronted them. The “doing it” comes before the fear goes away.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Doing, Feel

• Be sure your feet are in the right place. Then stand firm.

  ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Abraham Lincoln

• Nothing will come of nothing.

  ~ William Shakespeare quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action

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