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:-

• As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.”

  ~ Buddha quotes

• I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

  ~ Marcus Aurelius quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Truth, Persistence

• The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you a chance to cry out in distinguishable language for you. ‘Here I am within you.’ That is the silent voice, the voice of nature, which speaks to everyone who will listen.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Thoughts, Secret, Nature, Give, Universe, Within

• Faith—not a faith in one’s self or in one’s own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time. Without this faith it is not possible for any one to rise to real greatness.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Greatness, Power, Great, Victory, Faith, Give

• The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

  ~ Samuel Johnson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Samuel Johnson, Life

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