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:-

• When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

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• Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

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• The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Desire, Habit

• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  ~ Theodore Roosevelt quotes

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• No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

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