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:-

• There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Albert Einstein, Live, Life

• There is great value in service to others. If many people in therapy offices were asked to put their finger in a dike or to take their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

  ~ Elizabeth Berg quotes

• We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.

  ~ Aristotle quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Excellence | Areté

• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this. The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love

• Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Unknown, Heart, Now, Age, People

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