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:-

• Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Common Opinion

• At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

  ~ Benjamin Franklin quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Benjamin Franklin, Judgment, Age, Will

• Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

  ~ Ralph Charell quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Think, Thinking, Chess

• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

  ~ Teddy Roosevelt quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Challenges, Joy, Failure, Poor, Defeat, Win

• A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

  ~ Deepak Chopra quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception

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