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:-

• I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  ~ Warren Zevon quotes

  Famous Quotes on: War, Sleep

• The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Albert Einstein, Emotion, Motion, Mystic

• The way you bring up a child is the way it grows up.

  ~ Swahili proverb quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: The Way

• Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, "Do you want to make it or not?"

  ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You!

  Famous Quotes on: God, Past, Path, Obstacle, Skin

• Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Famous Quotes on: Business, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Good, Discover, Win

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