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:-

• This is my way; where is yours? – Thus I answered those who asked me “the way.” For "the way" – that does not exist.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

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• Knowledge is power.

  ~ Francis Bacon quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Francis Bacon, Power, Edge, Knowledge, Now

• Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.

  ~ Ernest Holmes quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Success, Life, Giving, Spiritual, Prosperity, Receive, Spirit, Gift, Ritual, People

• That’s the beautiful thing, that’s the secret: to want what you get rather than trying to get what you want, because that seems like a never-ending battle, and a losing battle at that. We seem to always get what we need, though. So when we want what we get, it’s really like wanting what we need.

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

• Pay no attention to what a critic says. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

  ~ Jean Sibelius quotes

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