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:-

• True nobility isn’t about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be.

  ~ Wayne Dyer quotes

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• Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

  ~ Lin Yutang quotes

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• I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

  ~ Mark Twain quotes

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• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

  ~ William James quotes

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• Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human “brain” with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human “heart” with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

  ~ The Dalai Lama quotes

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