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:-

• If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent.

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

  Self-Development Quotes on: Great, Effort, Talent

• We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

  ~ T.S. Elliot quotes

• The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from Veronika Decides to Die

  Self-Development Quotes on: Decide, Paulo Coelho, Adventure

• To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

  ~ Saint Catherine of Sienna quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom

• Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

  ~ Marcus Aurelius quotes from Meditations

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Thoughts, Life, Habit

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