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:-

• The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Inspirational Quotes on: Path, Work, Doing

• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.

  ~ Saint Augustine quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Perfection, Perfect

• Don’t say, “I am depressed.” If you want to say, “It is depressed,” that’s all right. If you want to say that depression is there, that’s fine; if you want to say gloominess is there, that’s fine. But not: I am gloomy. You’re defining yourself in terms of the feeling. That’s your illusion; that’s your mistake. There is a depression there right now, but let it be, leave it alone. It will pass. Everything passes, everything. Your depressions and your thrills have nothing to do with happiness. Those are swings of the pendulum. If you seek kicks or thrills, get ready for depression. Do you want your drug? Get ready for the hangover. One end of the pendulum swings over to the other.

  ~ Anthony de Mello quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Happiness, Depression, Mistake, Anthony De Mello, Win

• Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Live, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Music, People

• To me, old age is fifteen years older than I am.

  ~ Bernard M. Baruch quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Age

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