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:-

• An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

  ~ G.K. Chesterton quotes from On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered

  Self-Development Quotes on: Adventure, Right

• It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

  ~ Socrates quotes from The Apology

  Famous Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection, Life, Strong

• You get from the world what you give to the world.

  ~ Oprah quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Give

• Our life is frittered away by detail.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Life

• I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.

  ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  Self-Development Quotes on: Learn, Heart, Work, Peace

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