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:-

• People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection, People

• Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

  ~ Sivananda quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: God, Purpose, Life

• Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!… It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.

  ~ Jules Henry quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Learn, Give, Time, World

• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

  ~ Charles Kingsley quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Life, Happy

• "It you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal not to people or things."

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Goals, Life, Happy, People

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