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:-

• The ascent of Everest was not the work of one day, nor even of those few unforgettable weeks in which we climbed… It is, in fact, a tale of sustained and tenacious endeavor by many, over a long period of time.

  ~ Sir John Hunt quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Act, Work, Rest

• Reality doesn’t ever wait for our agreement or approval. It is what it is. You can count on that.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Katie

• It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

  ~ Paul Theroux quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Outcome, Hero, Now

• We don't know a millionth of 1 percent about anything.

  ~ Thomas Edison quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom

• Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Inspirational Quotes on: Business, Learn, Learning, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Good, Results, Becoming

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