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:-

• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

  ~ Leonardo da Vinci quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Mastery

• We are already one and we imagine we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. Whatever we have to be is what we are.

  ~ Thomas Merton quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Thomas Merton

• In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes from Walden

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Change, Truth, Henry David Thoreau, Family, Thoreau, Fame

• You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

  ~ Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Confidence

• Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

  ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Seneca, Live, Act, Time, Age

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