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:-

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Albert Einstein, Great, Mind, Spirit

• Live. If you live, God will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he’ll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation. Everyone knows this, but no one takes the first step, perhaps for fear of being called insane.

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from Veronika Decides to Die

  Motivational Quotes on: Decide, Fear, Risk, God, Paulo Coelho, Live

• In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.

  ~ Andrew Cohen quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Evolutionary Enlightenment, Enlightenment, Spirituality, Development, Ecstasy, Challenge

• I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

  ~ Oscar Wilde quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Desire, Work, Great, Give, Cause

• Men fear THOUGHT, as they fear nothing else on earth.

  ~ Bertrand Russell quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Thought, Fear

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