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:-

• Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

  ~ Ralph Charell quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Think, Thinking, Chess

• Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: War, Persona, Good, Great, Mind, Envy

• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  ~ Marcus Aurelius quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Stress, Power

• Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Unknown, Work, Time, Now

• The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

  ~ Viktor Frankl quotes

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