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:-

• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

  ~ Epictetus quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Goals

• It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Truth, God, Believe, Religious

• The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

  ~ Will Rogers quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Energy

• A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.

  ~ Chinese Proverb quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Joy

• Accept who you are and revel in that.

  ~ Mitch Albom quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

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