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:-

• Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

  ~ Mary Baker Eddy quotes from Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896

  Famous Quotes on: God, Greatness, Great, Light, Shine

• If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

  ~ Frank Wilczek quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Mistake, Work, Problem

• Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: Katie, Mission, Heart, Doing, Opinion

• They made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

  ~ Frank Herbert quotes from Dune

  Motivational Quotes on: War, Frank Herbert, Decision

• The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

  ~ Peter F. Drucker quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Focus, Act, Results, Edge, Knowledge, Now

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