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:-

• Though love is blind, yet 'tis not for want of eyes.

  ~ Thomas Fuller quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Thomas Fuller, Yes

• A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part limited in time and space He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest…a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our talk must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Thoughts, Desire, Experience, Albert Einstein, Persona, Kind, Rest, Feelings, Passion, Nature, Universe, Beauty, Compassion, Time, Thought, Feel, Consciousness

• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  ~ Chinese Proverb quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Teach, Life, Give

• What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  ~ Rollo May quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Rollo May, Try, Despair, Camus, Sartre

• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  ~ Bertrand Russell quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Belief, Work, Break

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