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:-

• Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

  ~ Voltaire quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Teach, Soul

• I wanted to live deep and suck out all he marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swatch and shave close, to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it or if it were sublime to know it by experience and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes from Walden

  Inspirational Quotes on: Experience, Henry David Thoreau, Live, Life, Thoreau, Give

• Legendary violinist Isaac Stern was once confronted by a middle-aged woman after a concert. She gushed, "Oh, Id' give my life to play like you!" "Lady," Stern said acidly, "that I did!"

  ~ Unknown quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Unknown, Life, Give

• You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.

  ~ Joubert quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Try, Now, Will, Poetry

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

  ~ Gail Godwin quotes

  Famous Quotes on: God, Teach, Good, Preparation, Heat, Win

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