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:-

• You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

  Motivational Quotes on: Success, Mistake, Great, Virtue

• The sacred is in the ordinary, in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

  ~ Abraham Maslow quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Friend

• The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

  ~ Niels Bohr quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Truth

• If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes from The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Change, Death, Life

• Everyone is a genius at least once a year; real genius has original ideas closer together.

  ~ George Lichtenberg quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Genius, Idea

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