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 mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

  ~ Bodhidharma quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, The Moment, Death, Future

• You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning, Success, Shame

• The true value of human being can be found in degrees to which he has attained liberation from the self.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Albert Einstein

• Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

  ~ Marlene Dietrich quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Act, Sex, World, Rich

• Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom

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