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:-

• Life is lived out on the wire. The rest is just waiting.

  ~ Papa Wallenda quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Live, Rest, Life

• A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world.

  ~ From a church in Sussex, England, ca. 1730 quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Dream, Sex, World

• On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path."

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from The Warrior of the Light

  Famous Quotes on: Think, War, Paulo Coelho, Warrior, Path, Sleep, Light, Suffer

• Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Individuality

• That magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

  ~ Benjamin Disraeli quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Benjamin Disraeli, Ignorance

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