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:-

• The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

  ~ Leonardo da Vinci quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Vision

• The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

  ~ Baruch Spinoza quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Baruch Spinoza, Emotion, Understand, Lover, Motion, Become

• Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

  ~ Cardinal de Retz quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Decide

• Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Desire

• Begin—to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this and thou wilt have finished.

  ~ Decimus Magnus Ausonius quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Action

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