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 heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

  ~ Thomas S. Monson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: War, Great, Light

• Freedom has no history.

  ~ Andrew Cohen quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Andrew Cohen, Freedom, Personal History

• I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from The Zahir

  Inspirational Quotes on: Paulo Coelho, Pain

• It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

  ~ Thomas Carlyle quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude

• The correct prayer is never one of supplication but one of gratitude.

  ~ Neal Donald Walsch quotes from Conversations with God

  Inspirational Quotes on: God, Prayer, Gratitude

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