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:-

• A gauge for wisdom.- The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom

• Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere? Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

  ~ Anthony de Mello quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Good, Fail, Anthony De Mello, Beauty

• Every story is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: God, Experience, Sin, Katie, Life, Should

• Listen a hundred times. Ponder a thousand times. Speak once.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Unknown

• There is only one rule to become a good talker, learn how to listen.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Learn, Unknown, Good, Now, Become

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