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:-

• We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Inspirational Quotes on: Business, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Good

• Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  ~ Apple Computers quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Individuality, People

• Creation is a better means of self expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

  ~ Vida D. Scudder quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Sin, Better, Life, Express

• He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes from Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery

• [dharma] implies support from within: the essence of a thing, its virtue, that which makes it what it is.

  ~ Eknath Easwaran quotes

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