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:-

• No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• Once you say you're going to settle for the second, that's what happens to you in your life.

  ~ John F. Kennedy quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: John F. Kennedy, Life

• I needed to be backed into a corner in order to get true motivation.

  ~ Donny Deutsch quotes from Often Wrong Never in Doubt

• Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. It is the only thing that ever has.

  ~ Margaret Mead quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Commit, Doubt, People

• Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Motivational Quotes on: Genius, Flow, Great, Win

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