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:-

• Creativity and love come from the same source.

  ~ Laurens Van der Post quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Creativity, Love

• In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse, mysterious because there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in Emptiness, period). Yet, there it is, this mysterious impulse, the impulse to … create. To sing, to shine, to radiate; to send forth, reach out, and celebrate; to sing and shout and walk about; to effervesce and bubble over, this mysterious exuberance in the heart of Emptiness.

  ~ Ken Wilber quotes from One Taste: July 31

• An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

  ~ Niels Bohr quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Niels Bohr, Mistake

•  Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

  ~ Arthur Schopenhauer quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Greatness

• I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you… and [are] having a fun time.

  ~ John Assaraf quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Learn, Sin, Yin, Thank You, Mind, Body, Happy, People, Win

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