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:-

• Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Hope

• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Truth, Albert Einstein, Live, Act, Beauty

• Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

  ~ Chinese Proverb quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Teach, Teacher

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary: new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with license of a higher order of beings.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Success, Henry David Thoreau, Live, Dreams, Dream, New, Life, Thoreau, Expect, Expand, Within, Confident

• Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Dan Millman, Yin, Life

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