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:-

• The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

  ~ Oscar Wilde quotes from A Woman of No Importance, 1894

  Inspirational Quotes on: Life, Body, Soul, Age, Tragedy

• In an orderly universe, there is simply no way in which one can get something for nothing.

  ~ Eric Butterworth quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Eric Butterworth, Universe

• 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

  Famous Quotes on: Learn, Rest, Forest, Edge, Knowledge, Now, Will

• "Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear."

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Fear

• Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Power, Freedom

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