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:-

• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Happy

• The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

  ~ Buckminster Fuller quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Purpose, Live, Follow, People

• I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.

  ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Learn, Truth, Past, Give, Forgive

• Whoso would ever be a man, must be a noncomformist.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Individuality

• Hold a true friend with both your hands.

  ~ Nigerian Proverb quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Nigeria, Friend

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Quotes by Teachers

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