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:-

• An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

  ~ G.K. Chesterton quotes from On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered

  Motivational Quotes on: Adventure, Right

• I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Heroism

  Self-Development Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Nature, Hero, Fate, Friend, Angel

• Don't think you are, know you are.

  ~ Morpheus quotes from The Matrix

  Famous Quotes on: Think

• You are the effect of your story, that’s all.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: Katie, Effect

• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision

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