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:-

• All of life’s experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits a response by encouraging the Creator to acquire new knowledge, skill, or insight. Both roles provoke change, but in different ways.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Teach, Change, Experience, Creator, David Emerald, Act, New, Power, Life, Challenge, Edge, Rent, Teacher, Roles, Reaction, Evolve, Knowledge, Skill

• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community…and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  ~ George Bernard Shaw quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: George Bernard Shaw, Live, Future, Work, Life, Torch, Right, Opinion, Moment

• To be awake is to be alive.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes from Walden

  Inspirational Quotes on: Henry David Thoreau, Live, Thoreau

• When I played with Michael Jordan on the Olympic team, there was a huge gap between his ability and the ability of the other great players on that team. But what impressed me was that he was always the first one on the floor and the last one to leave.

  ~ Steve Alford quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Michael Jordan, Great

• We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don’t feel that anymore

  ~ Oprah Winfrey quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Stress, Create, Cause, Feel, Win

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