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:-

• He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

  ~ Tom J. Connelly quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Question

• You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

  ~ Anne Lamott quotes from Bird By Bird

  Inspirational Quotes on: God, Create, People

• All that a man is outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly. To act nobly he must think nobly.

  ~ William Ellery Channing quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Think, War, Act, Work, Express

• O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

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

  Famous Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection, Happy

• Once you say you're going to settle for the second, that's what happens to you in your life.

  ~ John F. Kennedy quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: John F. Kennedy, Life

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