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:-

• When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters--one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

  ~ John F. Kennedy quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Attitude

• I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

  ~ Pietro Aretino quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Truth, Lies, Cause

• Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review your day, consider these two questions of courage and love. Learn from each day, so that each day you can show a little more courage and a little more love. Then, as incidents occur, you may rise to the occasion and look back at the end of your life and feel good about the way you lived.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes from No Ordinary Moments

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Love, Learn, War, Dan Millman, Live, Questions, Warrior, Good, Sleep, Life, The Way

• Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity! Simplicity! Simplicity!

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes from Walden

  Inspirational Quotes on: Simplicity, Henry David Thoreau, Life, Thoreau

• The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men.

  ~ Captain J. A. Hatfield quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Worry, Sin, Secret, Power, Great, Rest, Mind

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