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:-

• In the course of heir careers in the American schools of today, most students take hundreds, if not thousands, of tests. They develop skill to a highly calibrated degree in an exercise that will essentially become useless immediately after their last day in school.

  ~ Howard Gardner quotes

  Famous Quotes on: War, Howard Gardner, Careers, Exercise, Student, Skill, Career

• Every moment of our lives we are either growing or dying—and it’s largely a choice, not fate. Throughout its life cycle, every one of the body’s trillions of cells is driven to grow and improve its ability to use more of its innate yet untapped capacity. Research biologist Albert Szent-Gyoergyi, who was twice awarded the Nobel Prize, called this syntropy, which he defined as the “innate drive in living matter to perfect itself.” It turns conventional thinking upside down…As living cells—or as people—there is no staying the same. If we aim for some middle ground or status quo, it’s an illusion—beneath the surface what’s actually happening is we’re dying, not growing. And the goal of a lifetime is continued growth, not adulthood. As Rene Dubos put it, “Genius is childhood recaptured.” For this to happen, studies show that we must recapture—or prevent the loss of—such child-like traits as the ability to learn, to love, to laugh about small things, to leap, to wonder, and to explore. It’s time to rescue ourselves from our grown-up ways before it’s too late.

  ~ Robert Cooper quotes from The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership & Life

  Inspirational Quotes on: Leadership, Growth, Love, Learn, Think, War, Live, Thinking, Genius, Laugh, Zen, Act, Yin, The Moment, Life, Body, Potential, Fate, Explore, Perfect, Syntropy, Choice, People, Win, Dying

• Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  Inspirational Quotes on: Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Society

• We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience.

  ~ George Washington quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  ~ Walt Disney quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision, Dream

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