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:-

• You’re not living until it doesn’t matter a tinker’s damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you’re ready to lose your life, you live it.

  ~ Anthony de Mello quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Live, Life, Anthony De Mello

• If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

  ~ Ray Kroc quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Business, Risk, Sin

• You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

  ~ Confucius quotes from The Analects

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Life

• I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.

  ~ Bono quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Luck, Think, Tension, Rent, People

• He who has not forgiven an enemy has never tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

  ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Joy, Life

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