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:-

• We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Conduct of Life

  Inspirational Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Life

• "A philosophy of life: I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure."

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

  Famous Quotes on: Vision, Purpose, Life

• So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there’s no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement.

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

• "The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery."

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Mystery

• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

  ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Confidence

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