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:-

• The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Attitude, Insanity

• Some of the world's greatest feats were accompanied by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

  ~ Doug Larson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, People, Smart

• Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

  ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset quotes

• You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

  ~ Shira Tehrani quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Life

• Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks he is!

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Think, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson

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