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:-

• The rain-weeping and the sun burning twine together to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh. Cry easily like a little child.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Life, Win

• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Life

• Racism is man's gravest threat to man--the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

  ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Reason

• To understand the heart and the mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

  ~ Kahlil Gibran quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Kahlil Gibran, Heart, Mind, Understand, Ready, Achieve

• So, instead of wanting to throttle your loved ones when they give you a hard time, it is better to look at them as mirrors of what you still need to work on in terms of our personal growth.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Growth, Love, Persona, Better, Work, Give, Time, Mirror, Feel

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