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:-

• An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

  ~ Aldous Huxley quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Learn

• The learners shall inherit the earth while the learned will be beautifully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

  ~ Eric Hoffer quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Learn, Learning, Learned

• ...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Self-Development Quotes on: Business, Energy, Change, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Stop, Good, Soul, Edge, Win

• Based on my fifteen years as practicing Masters and Johnson-trained therapist, I have put together a book which….has a revolutionary premise of its own: that lifelong committed sex has the potential to be more thrilling, more varied, more satisfying in every way than any other sexual arrangement you can think of.

  ~ Dagmar O'Connor quotes from How to Make Love to the Same Person for the Rest of your Life

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Think, Act, Yin, Sex, Rest, Life, Potential, Master, Commit, Train

• Great minds ask great questions.

  ~ Michael Gelb quotes from How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Everyday

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Excellence | Areté

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