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:-

• Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

  ~ Chinese Proverb quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Learn, Learning, Follow, Will

• The ancestor to every action is a thought.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Act, Emerson

• To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.

  ~ Anne Lamott quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Power, Mind

• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  ~ James Allen quotes from As a Man Thinketh

  Famous Quotes on: Vision, Intent, Achieve, Dream

• Ships in harbor are safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  ~ John Shedd quotes

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