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 learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.

  ~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

  Famous Quotes on: Learn, Think, Creator, Secret, Universe

• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matter compared to what lies within us.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Lies, Within

• One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who could remember which cave had the gentle guy who gave her food is more likely to be our foremother than the cave woman who confused it with the cave that held the killer bear. The emotion of love (or something resembling it) and the emotion of fear would help secure her memories.

  ~ Dr. Candace B. Pert quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Decide, Fear, Love, Purpose, Emotion, Cave, Motion

• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Worry

• If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it—purge it, make it perfect—because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile…To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

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