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:-

• I cannot live without books.

  ~ Thomas Jefferson quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning

• Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses…

  ~ Marcus Aurelius quotes from Meditations

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, The Moment, Life

• Every single person on the planet is a genius.

  ~ Robin Sharma quotes

• To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

  ~ Connie Zweig quotes from Romancing the Shadow

  Self-Development Quotes on: Growth, War, Sin, Acting, Act, Expand

• Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

  ~ Buddha quotes

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