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:-

• Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

  ~ Dalai Lama quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Business, Religious, Peace, Buddhism

• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

  ~ St Augustine quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Patience

• Fear is a great instructor.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Great, Compensation

• It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Perception

• So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Energy

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