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:-

• That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking—why the hell not?

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Famous Quotes on: Work, Skin

• We’ve been looking outside us for our own peace. We’ve been looking in the wrong direction.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: Katie, Peace

• It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

  ~ e.e. cummings quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, E.e. Cummings

• All know the way, but few actually walk it.

  ~ Bodhidharma quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery

• Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes from Mystic Path to Cosmic Power

  Inspirational Quotes on: War, Dictionary, Power, Path, Nature, Vernon Howard, The Mystic Path To Cosmic Power, Spiritual, Try, Spirit, Simple, Principles

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