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:-

• Talk does not cook rice.

  ~ Chinese Proverb quotes

• The purpose for the passage of time is to allow a person to become better, wiser, to express more and more of one’s beingness.

  ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  Motivational Quotes on: Purpose, Better, Express, Wise

• Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Intent, Warrior, Defeat

• Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

  ~ Robin Sharma quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Vision, Think, Laugh, Great, Leader

• ""You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead""

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action

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