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:-

• Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

  ~ Dr. Karl Menninger quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Give, Receive, People

• A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

  ~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Life

• Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Death

• If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

  ~ William Blake quotes from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

  Motivational Quotes on: Perception, William Blake

• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

  ~ John Donne quotes from For Whom the Bell Tolls

  Self-Development Quotes on: Death, Kind, Friend, Donne, For Whom The Bell Tolls

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