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:-

• To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew… | Hooded by a dark sense of destination… | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.

  ~ C. Day Lewis quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: God, Flow, Lewis, New, Sleep, Light

• Life is too short for theatrics, for face time, for jumping through hoops, for excuses, for blaming, for trying too hard to please others, or for chasing society’s illusion of distant riches or fame.

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

  Motivational Quotes on: Leadership, Sin, Yin, Life, Potential, Jump, Try, Fame, Rich

• There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

  ~ George Sand quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Happiness, Life

• Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

  ~ Sophocles quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Act

• Through some strange and powerful principle of “mental chemistry” which she has never divulged, Nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire “that something” which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

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