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:-

• Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: God, Unknown, Gift, Now, Talent

• Don't let your throat tighten with fear. Take sips of breath all day and night, before death closes your mouth.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Fear, Death

• Speak what you think today in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage

• I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

  ~ Mark Twain quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Mark Twain, Great, Now

• Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere? Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

  ~ Anthony de Mello quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Good, Fail, Anthony De Mello, Beauty

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