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:-

• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

  ~ Nikola Tesla quotes from Autobiography

  Famous Quotes on: Belief, Autobiography, War, Compensation

• If you are focused on he “the way it’s supposed to be,” you might miss the opportunity to enjoy the way it is or to have it be wonderful in a totally different way from what you imagined.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Inspirational Quotes on: Focus, Fear, The Way, Rent, Joy, Enjoy, Opportunity, Feel

• Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Conduct of Life

  Famous Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Life, Nature, Society, Impossible

• I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Secret, Waste, Universe

• In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.

  ~ Andrew Cohen quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Evolutionary Enlightenment, Enlightenment, Spirituality, Development, Ecstasy, Challenge

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