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:-

• We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

  ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Intimacy, Death, Doubt

• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

  ~ William James quotes

  Famous Quotes on: William James, Habit, Decision

• Speak what you think today in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage

• The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

  ~ Congo Proverb quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Heart

• Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

  ~ Robert J. Sawyer quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Learn, Learning, Path, Great, Peace

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