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 artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

  ~ Emile Zola quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Work, Gift

• I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Motivational Quotes on: Truth, Katie, Act, Freedom, Anger

• For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Simplicity, Freedom

• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Worry

• There is only one problem, ever: your uninvestigated story in the moment.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Motivational Quotes on: The Moment, Katie, Problem, Moment

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Quotes by Teachers

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