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:-

• In order to be walked on, you have to lying down.

  ~ Brian Weir quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Yin

• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

  ~ John F. Kennedy quotes

  Famous Quotes on: John F. Kennedy, Time

• All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

  ~ The Dhammapada quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: The Dhammapada

• The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

  ~ Rollo May quotes from The Courage to Create

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Heart, Create, Virtue, Rollo May, Values

• War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

  ~ Augustine quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, War

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