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:-

• I don’t know what to do. I only know that it’s taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn’t want to go in.

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from Veronika Decides to Die

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• Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?

  ~ Jim Rohn quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Life

• So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Energy

• It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Experience, Mystery, Albert Einstein, Religion

• You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Success, Failure, Unknown, Fail, Now

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Byron Katie T. Harv Eker Susan Jeffers Mevlana Rumi Wallace D. Wattles Walter Russell Unknown Seneca Russell Simmons Joseph Campbell Carlos Castaneda Friedrich Nietzsche Albert Einstein John Eliot, Ph.D. Timothy Ferriss Henry David Thoreau Paulo Coelho Kahlil Gibran Abraham Maslow Dan Millman Napoleon Hill Anthony de Mello Mark Twain Robin Sharma James Allen Winston Churchill Confucius Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Thomas A. Edison Vince Lombardi Marilyn Vos Savant Robert Cooper Vaclav Havel David Emerald Vernon Howard Tony Robbins William Shakespeare Marlo Morgan Ernest Holmes Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Dalai Lama Walt Whitman A Course in Miracles Oscar Wilde John F. Kennedy Maximus Walt Disney Jeanette Winterson Anonymous R. Buckminster Fuller Neal Donald Walsch Elbert Hubbard Morihei Ueshiba Abraham Lincoln Thomas Merton Leonardo da Vinci David McCullough Donny Deutsch Connie Zweig Buckminster Fuller Buddhist Sutra Paul "Bear" Bryant Mitch Albom Brian Weir Coure in Miracles Elizabeth Kubler Ross Mae West Emile Zola Henry J. Kaiser Eleanor Roosevelt Plotinus Augustine Douglas MacArthur Samuel Johnson Erich Fromm Sal Sorbera Marianne Williamson Dr. David Hawkins Erica Jong Bertrand Russell Sydney Smith Christian D. Larson Dr. Samuel Johnson Ann Landers Lilly Tomlin Will Durant Irish Proverb Venus Williams Ingvar Kamprad Harry Truman John Dewey Epicurus William M. Thackeray Arthur C. Clarke Alfred Adler Martin Seligman Georgia O'Keeffe Ekhart Tolle Dante Alighieri Alice Miller Ken Blanchard Bodhidharma Brian Tracy Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Patrick Delany St. Francis of Assisi Dutch proverb Dorothy Parker English Proverb Jacob Bronowski Ernest Hemingway Laura Huxley Denzel Washington Stephen Jay Gould Richard Bach Warren Zevon Lucille S. Harper Tirukural Oprah Brendan Brazier William S. Halsey W. Somerset Maugham Thoreau Thomas Jefferson Dr. William Mayo Earl G. Graves Soichiro Honda Brigham Young Lucille Ball Nelson Mandella Steve Pavlina Ken Wilber Sylvester Stallone Bill Gates Jim Rohn C. Day Lewis Percy Ross Roger Staubach Jean Cocteau The Dalai Lama Woodrow Wilson Articolo 31 Ronald Reagan Gay & Katie Hendricks Jules Henry Stephen Covey Dale Carnegie Jimmy Johnson Marcus Aurelius Peter Drucker