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:-

• Is that what I want? The model family, two plus two in an easy home assembly kit? I don't want a model, I want the full-scale original. I don't want to reproduce, I want to make something entirely new.

  ~ Jeanette Winterson quotes from Written on the Body

  Motivational Quotes on: New, Body, Family

• To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Motivational Quotes on: Secret, Exercise, Great, Control

• I ask you, what is the use of having your “cake” if you can’t eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

  Self-Development Quotes on: Secret, Act, Mind, Joy, Enjoy

• To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

  ~ Peter F. Drucker quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Learn, Rest, Forest, Edge, Knowledge, Now, Will

• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Albert Einstein, Act, Life, Attraction

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