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:-

• "There are two kinds of men who don't amount to much: those who can't do what they are told and those who can do nothing else."

  ~ Cyrus Curtis quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage

• Extraordinary things like this occur frequently to most of us, but we disregard them, because of our lack of understanding, and we think they are mere coincidences.

  ~ Roger McDonald quotes from Message of a Master

  Motivational Quotes on: Think, Master, Understand, Extraordinary

• Man cannot learn anything except by going from the known to the unknown.

  ~ Claude Bernard quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Learn, Unknown

• Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom

• Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Motivational Quotes on: Katie, Mission, Heart, Doing, Opinion

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