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:-

• Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Communication

• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage

• I think it was Nietzsche who said, “Be careful lest in casting out the devils you cast out the best thing that’s in you.”

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes from The Power of Myth

• In an orderly universe, there is simply no way in which one can get something for nothing.

  ~ Eric Butterworth quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Eric Butterworth, Universe

• Adults remain social animals: they continue to require a source of stabilization outside themselves. That open-loop design means that in some important ways, people cannot be stable on their own--not should or shouldn't be, but can't be.

  ~ Drs. Lewis, Amini and Lannon quotes from A General Theory of Love

  Self-Development Quotes on: General, Love, Lewis, Amini, Lannon, People

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