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 learners shall inherit the earth while the learned will be beautifully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

  ~ Eric Hoffer quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Learn, Learning, Learned

• [When asked what the purpose of life is:] "To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

  ~ Shimon Peres quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Purpose, Life, Give

• Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.

  ~ Eric Butterworth quotes

• We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

  ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Intimacy, Death, Doubt

• If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Inspirational Quotes on: Great, Effort, Talent

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