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:-

• To be awake is to be alive.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes from Walden

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• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  ~ Will Durant quotes

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• Most of you are much closer to a financial fortune than you are even allowing yourself to purely desire, because, in the thought that it might come, you right away begin thinking of how disappointed you will be if it does not come. And so, in your lackful thought, you do not allow yourself to desire or to expect anything magnificent in terms of money; and that is the reason why, for the most part, you are living rather mediocre financial experiences.

  ~ Esther & Jerry Hicks quotes

• Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

  ~ Winston Churchill quotes

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