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:-

• Never mistake motion for action.

  ~ Ernest Hemingway quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Ernest Hemingway, Act, Mistake, Motion

• Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world. A few do not. Join them.

  ~ Arthur Schopenhauer quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision, Arthur Schopenhauer, People

• More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

  ~ Buddha quotes from The Dhammapada

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Thoughts

• Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Motivational Quotes on: Katie

• Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

  ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Seneca, Live, Act, Time, Age

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