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:-

• Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Famous Quotes on: Vision, Purpose

• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me."

  ~ Erma Bombeck quotes

  Famous Quotes on: God, Sin, Life, Talent

• I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.

  ~ Martin Seligman quotes from Learned Optimism

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Desire, Learn, Mozart, Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism, Passion, Music, Give, Try, Talent, Believe

• The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

  ~ Samuel Johnson quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Samuel Johnson, Life

• The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

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

  Famous Quotes on: God, The Prophet, Past, Great

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