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:-

• I must create a system or be enslav'd by another man's. I will not reason or compare: my business is to create.

  ~ William Blake quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Business, Sin, William Blake, Create, Reason

• Each of us bears his own Hell.

  ~ Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) quotes

• When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Friend

• I ask you, what is the use of having your “cake” if you can’t eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

  Motivational Quotes on: Secret, Act, Mind, Joy, Enjoy

• Do it, fix it, try it.

  ~ Tom Peters quotes from In Search of Excellence

  Self-Development Quotes on: Excellence, Try

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