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:-

• I have learned as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to fonts of wisdom and knowledge.

  ~ Igor Stravinsky quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Failure, Knowledge

• Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

  ~ Cardinal de Retz quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Decide

• We need men who can dream of things that never were.

  ~ John F. Kennedy quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision, Dream

• Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

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

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Intimacy

• It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

  Motivational Quotes on: Achievement, Achieve

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