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:-

• Nice, smart people succeed.

  ~ Tim Sanders quotes from Love Is the Killer App

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, People, Smart

• You call it madness, but I call it love.

  ~ Don Byas quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love

• What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  ~ Rollo May quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Rollo May, Try, Despair, Camus, Sartre

• All victims have experienced a loss—a thwarted desire or aspiration—even if they’re not aware of it.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

  Inspirational Quotes on: Desire, Experience, War, David Emerald, Power, Victim

• That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Truth, Joy

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