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:-

• Act the part and you will become the part.

  ~ William James quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: William James, Act

• It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Experience, Mystery, Albert Einstein, Religion

• Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy—that he live in accordance with his own nature.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Purpose

• If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

  ~ Shunryu Suzuki quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Mind, Empty, Ready

• With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Henry David Thoreau, Soul, Light, Thoreau

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