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 willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

  ~ Blood of the Martyr quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Live, Power, Endure, Now, Will, Blood

• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

  ~ Mark Twain quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Mark Twain, Education

• Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.

  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt quotes from This is my story"; p. 162

  Motivational Quotes on: Eleanor Roosevelt, Live, Life, Discover, Decision

• A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Character, Happiness, Guarantee

• When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Experience, War, Katie, Act, Suffering, Feelings, Suffer, Friend, Friends, Feel, Inquiry

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