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:-

• Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life…It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

  Motivational Quotes on: David Emerald, Power, Life, Soul, Give

• There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

  ~ Mother Theresa quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Interconnectedness, Greed

• It is better to perform one's own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another. By fulfilling the obligations he is born with, a person never comes to grief.

  ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Purpose

• The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

  ~ Socrates quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Character

• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

  ~ Nikola Tesla quotes from Autobiography

  Inspirational Quotes on: Belief, Autobiography, War, Compensation

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