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:-

• Not failure, but low aim, is crime

  ~ James Russell Lowell quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Failure, Fail

• A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

  ~ Anthony de Mello quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Dance, Music, Within, Anthony De Mello

• When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a plate of pasta. You have never seen a plate of pasta. You don't even know it exists. So, to ask for it is totally out of your reality. Hopefully, at some point, either someone shows you a plate of pasta, you read about it, or you hear about it enough so that it becomes real, and it's not just a fantasy anymore, and then you start thinking "Hey, I want that pasta."

  ~ Barbara De Angelis. Ph.D. quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Think, Thinking, Past, Angel

• Enthusiasm moves the world.

  ~ J. Balfour quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Enthusiasm

• A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

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