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:-

• How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Growth, Sin, Henry David Thoreau, Edge, Ignorance, Thoreau, Knowledge

• We are already one and we imagine we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. Whatever we have to be is what we are.

  ~ Thomas Merton quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Thomas Merton

• Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

  ~ Seneca quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Seneca, Yin

• You get from the world what you give to the world.

  ~ Oprah quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Give

• Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.

  ~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

  Famous Quotes on: Secret, Heart, Give, Universe

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