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 try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.

  ~ Steve Pavlina quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Time, Awakening, Alarm Clocks

• My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Henry David Thoreau, Discover, Thoreau

• A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

  ~ Louis Nizer quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Work, Nature

• Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

  ~ Edward George Bulwer-Lytton quotes

  Famous Quotes on: War, Genius, Talent

• I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

  ~ Thomas A. Edison quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Think, Vice, Perfect, Give, Service

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