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 made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand.

  ~ Baruch Spinoza quotes

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• Seeing is not believing. Believing is seeing! You see things, not as they are, but as you are.

  ~ Eric Butterworth quotes

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• Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Nature

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• Intuition isn't mystical.

  ~ Dr. James Watson quotes

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• If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

  ~ Dr. Herbert Benson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Learn, Mind, People

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