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:-

• You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

  ~ Confucius quotes from The Analects

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Life

• I will form good habits and become their slaves.

  ~ Og Mandino quotes from The Greatest Salesman in the World

  Famous Quotes on: Habit, Og Mandino, Good, Great

• That is mediocrity though it be called moderation.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  Famous Quotes on: Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Moderation

• Poetry expresses the idea; song regulates the sounds; dance enlivens the attitudes; these three have their principal in a man's heart, and it is only the later that musical instruments lend their help.

  ~ Yo Ki quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Attitude, Live, Heart, Dance, Music, Express, Try, Idea, Poetry, Instrument

• Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

  ~ Confucius quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Simplicity, Life, Simple

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