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:-

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary: new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with license of a higher order of beings.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

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• Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

  ~ Aristotle quotes

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• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

  ~ John F. Kennedy quotes

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• Whenever I make a bum decision, I just go out and make another.

  ~ Harry Truman quotes

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• If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

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