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:-

• Not failure, but low aim, is crime

  ~ James Russell Lowell quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Failure, Fail

• When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Teach, Truth

• Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Don't search for answers now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything.

  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Spirit, Love, Patience, Live, Questions, Heart, Try

• So do you want your life to “take off”? Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be—and move into that. Check every thought, word and action that does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those.

  ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Act, Life, The Way, Fall

• If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

  ~ Carl Sagan quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Create, Universe

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