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 surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude

• Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.

  ~ Richard Bach quotes from Jonathon Livingston Seagull

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision, Purpose, Life

• I kept six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

  ~ Rudyard Kipling quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Think

• Anything you undertake will be possible to accomplish.

  ~ Roger McDonald quotes from Message of a Master

  Inspirational Quotes on: Master

• You know what I love, sweetheart? The thoughts that used to send us into deep depression—these same thoughts, once understood, send us into laughter.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Motivational Quotes on: Thoughts, Love, Depression, Laugh, Katie, Heart, Now, Thought, Laughter

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