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:-

• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Luck, Abraham Lincoln, Flow, New, Best, Thought

• When a person is devoted to something with complete faith, I unify his faith in that. Then, when his faith his completely unified, he gains the object of his devotion.”

  ~ Krishna quotes

• I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

  ~ Henry Ford quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Henry Ford

• We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

  ~ Carl Sagan quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Sin, The Moment, History

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