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:-

• For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Friendship, Warrior, People

• The rain-weeping and the sun burning twine together to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh. Cry easily like a little child.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Life, Win

• You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning, Success, Shame

• Why do they always teach us that it is easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves. It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Teach, Ayn Rand, Kind, Great, Rest, Evil

• He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

  ~ James Allen quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision

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