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 I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp…

  ~ James Russell Lowel quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Live, Friend

• Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom

• If a man does not keep pace with his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Individuality

• So do you want your life to “take off”? Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be—and move into that. Check every thought, word and action that does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those.

  ~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Act, Life, The Way, Fall

• Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

  ~ Robert J. Sawyer quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Learn, Learning, Path, Great, Peace

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