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:-

• A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Strong

• In the heart of Emptiness there is a mysterious impulse, mysterious because there is actually nothing in the heart of Emptiness (for there is nothing in Emptiness, period). Yet, there it is, this mysterious impulse, the impulse to … create. To sing, to shine, to radiate; to send forth, reach out, and celebrate; to sing and shout and walk about; to effervesce and bubble over, this mysterious exuberance in the heart of Emptiness.

  ~ Ken Wilber quotes from One Taste: July 31

• If I have an art form of leadership, it is to make as many mistakes as quickly as I can in order to learn.

  ~ Unknown quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

  Motivational Quotes on: Leadership, Learn, Unknown, Mistake, Leader

• He who stops being better stops being good.

  ~ Oliver Cromwell quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Live, Stop, Better, Good

• No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind

  Self-Development Quotes on: Think, War, Thinking, Power, Mind, Vernon Howard, The Power of Your Supermind, Rich

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