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:-

• Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy—that he live in accordance with his own nature.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision, Purpose

• I said to myself: “You mean all those people out there that I’ve been envying because they’re not afraid to move ahead with their lives have really been afraid? Why didn’t somebody tell me!?” I guess I never asked.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Live, Yin, Body, Envy, Cause, Feel, People

• The only thing to fear is fear itself.

  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Fear

• The chief enemy of creativity is common sense.

  ~ Pablo Picasso quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision

• Man is what he believes.

  ~ Anton Checkhov quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Believe

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