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:-

• Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from The Warrior of the Light

  Motivational Quotes on: War, Paulo Coelho, Warrior, Soul, Light

• Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.

  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Individuality

• Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of revolutions. One thing he teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Compensation

  Famous Quotes on: Fear, Teach, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Great, Compensation

• If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.

  ~ Benjamin Franklin quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Benjamin Franklin

• Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

  ~ Thomas Merton quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Thomas Merton, Anxiety, Spiritual, Security, Spirit

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