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's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

  ~ Oscar Wilde quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Life

• If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you don’t bring forth will destroy you.

  ~ Jesus quotes from Book of Thomas

  Motivational Quotes on: Jesus, Destroy

• No race can prosper, till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a filed as in writing a poem.

  ~ Booker T. Washington quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Learn

• What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.

  ~ Russell Simmons quotes from Do You!

  Famous Quotes on: Faith, People

• Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub-consciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

  ~ Aaron Copland quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Confidence

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