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:-

• The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of a dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

  ~ Barbara Kingsolver quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Friend

• The best things cannot be told.

  ~ Heinrich Zimmer quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Best

• The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

  ~ Sean O'Casey quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Happiness, Secret

• We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.

  ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Act, Life, Give

• If a man does not keep pace with his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Individuality

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Byron Katie T. Harv Eker Unknown Mevlana Rumi Wallace D. Wattles Walter Russell Susan Jeffers Carlos Castaneda James Allen Friedrich Nietzsche Albert Einstein Seneca Timothy Ferriss John Eliot, Ph.D. Mark Twain Stephen R. Covey Russell Simmons Joseph Campbell Buddha Dan Millman John F. Kennedy Leo Buscaglia Henry Ford Robert Cooper Napoleon Hill Chinese Proverb Vernon Howard Tony Robbins Anais Nin Marlo Morgan Donny Deutsch Nikola Tesla William Blake Benjamin Franklin Morihei Ueshiba Confucius David Emerald Elbert Hubbard George Bernard Shaw Thomas Edison Franklin D. Roosevelt The Dalai Lama Buckminster Fuller Neal Donald Walsch Ayn Rand Helen Keller Eric Butterworth Will Rogers Robin Sharma William James John W. Gardner Robert Allen Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Connie Zweig Abraham Maslow W. Clement Stone Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Paulo Coelho Winston Churchill Ken Wilber Leonardo da Vinci Albert Camus T.S. Elliot Victor Hugo Leo Tolstoy Brian Adams D.H Lawrence Lee Iacocca Cliff Durfee Stephen Covey Steven Pressfield Nike Carl Sagan Rabindranath Tagore Bruce Jenner Nelson Mandela Theodor Sorenson FM Alexander Father Flanagan's Boys Town Axiom Andrew Carnegie Lisa Kirk Daniel Cohen Frederick the Great Jesus James Branch Cabell Blood of the Martyr Japanese Proverb Jack Kerouac Old New York Proverb Pablo Picasso John Wooden Brian Weir Hillel Hugh Prather Larry Bird James Baldwin From a church in Sussex, England, ca. 1730 Danny G. Mitch Albom Sir John Hunt Kerry Gleeson English Proverb William Shakespeare Margaret Mead Walt Whitman Junior Murchison Booker T. Washington Vimala Thakar Malcolm S. Forbes Bill Watterson Mahatma Gandhi F. Scott Fitzgerald Sigmund Romberg Esther & Jerry Hicks Johan Wolfgang von Goethe Dale Dauten Rainer Maria Rilke Maxwell Maltz Mary-Elaine Jacobsen Peter Senge Bob Proctor A Course in Miracles Dale Carnegie Benjamin Disraeli Don Miguel Ruiz Samuel Goldwyn Plotinus James Russell Lowel Oliver Wendell Holmes Arthur Schopenhauer Jim Carrey Waren G. Bennis Vaclav Havel Dr. William Mayo Loa Tzu Marcus Aurelius José Silva and Burt Goldman Dan Sullivan Christian D. Larson Luis Villalobos Norman Cousins Marilyn Vos Savant John Lennon Will Durant Calvin Coolidge Thea Alexander get author Kikuyu of Kenya Proverb Emmanuel William Jennings Bryan