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:-

• A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Unknown, Now, Skill

• Courage is the human virtue that counts most--courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

  ~ Robert Frost quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Challenges, Knowledge

• Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.

  ~ Harry Truman quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love

• There is no knowledge that is not power.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Power, Edge, Knowledge

• Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the byproduct of other activities.

  ~ Aldous Huxley quotes from Vedanta for the Western World, 1945

  Inspirational Quotes on: General, Happiness, Aldous Huxley, Act, World, Achieve

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