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:-

• What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Strong

• What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Communication

• For of all sad words of tongues and pen, the saddest are these: It might have been.

  ~ John Greenleaf Whittier quotes

• How can one call that a defeat? There is no such thing.

  ~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

  Motivational Quotes on: Secret, Universe, Defeat

• Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Desire

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