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 best of conversations occur when there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.

  ~ Samuel Johnson quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Conversations

• Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

  Inspirational Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Act, Emerson, Evil, Compensation

• I must create a system or be enslav'd by another man's. I will not reason or compare: my business is to create.

  ~ William Blake quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Business, Sin, William Blake, Create, Reason

• Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

  ~ Epicurus quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death

• My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Action, The Moment, Friend

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