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:-

• Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

  ~ Victor Hugo quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Devo, Friend, Victor Hugo, Time

• Let go the things of which you are in doubt for the things in which there is no doubt.

  ~ Mohammed quotes from Islamic texts

  Self-Development Quotes on: Islam, Doubt

• We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

  ~ Harriet Martineau quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Try, Cause, Believe

• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

  ~ Oscar Wilde quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Life, Beginning, Roman

• We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Conduct of Life

  Famous Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Life

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