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:-

• Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub-consciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

  ~ Aaron Copland quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Confidence

• Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: War, Live, Authentic, Vernon Howard, Mysticism, Mystic

• The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

  ~ Herbert Spencer quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Act, Great, Education, Edge, Knowledge

• It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Famous Quotes on: Happiness, Great

• Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; but doing well is the wisest and best of all.

  ~ Unknown quotes from persian proverb

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Wise

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