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:-

• Creation is a better means of self expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

  ~ Vida D. Scudder quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Sin, Better, Life, Express

• Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Unknown, Work, Time, Now

• When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind

  Famous Quotes on: Energy, War, Power, Mind, Vernon Howard, The Power of Your Supermind, Strong

• The less you need someone’s approval, the more you are able to love them.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Love, Feel

• Begin—to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this and thou wilt have finished.

  ~ Decimus Magnus Ausonius quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Action

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