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:-

• 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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Light, Master, Idea

• If you take risks, you may fail. But if you don't take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.

  ~ Robert Goizueta quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage

• I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn't change, you've become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you.

  ~ Neal Donald Walsch quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Change, Desire, Persona, Better, Ideal, Great, Ideals, Understand

• "Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all."

  ~ Dan Millman quotes from The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Happy

• A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.

  ~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

  Self-Development Quotes on: Secret, Universe

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