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:-

• Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

  ~ Thomas H. Huxley quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Learn, Act, Follow, Nature, Give, Will

• The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

  ~ Shirley MacLaine quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love

• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

  ~ Aristotle quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Enthusiasm

• You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Unknown, Expect, Now, People

• The rain-weeping and the sun burning twine together to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh. Cry easily like a little child.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Life, Win

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