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:-

• Leap and the net will appear.

  ~ Julia Cameron quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Will

• Everything hangs on one's thinking.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude

• Whatever we feel we most need is what we most need to give.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Unknown, Give

• "The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself."

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Peace

• We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

  ~ Frank Tibolt quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Inspiration, Act

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