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:-

• Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

  ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quotes from Good Business

  Inspirational Quotes on: Business, Learn, Learning, Sin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Zen, Good, Results, Becoming

• You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Inspirational Quotes on: Think, Great

• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Individuality

• He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live!

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

  Famous Quotes on: Enthusiasm

• The power of hiding ourselves from one other is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

  ~ Henry Ward Beecher quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: War, Devo, Henry Ward Beecher, Power, Give

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