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:-

• But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

  ~ Nikola Tesla quotes from Autobiography

  Motivational Quotes on: Truth, Autobiography, Effort, Edge, Knowledge, Doubt

• The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes from The Power of Myth

• An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

  ~ Paulo Coelho quotes from Veronika Decides to Die

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Decide, Death, War, Paulo Coelho, Live, Awareness

• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision

• It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Famous Quotes on: Katie, Pain, Cause

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