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:-

• For of all sad words of tongues and pen, the saddest are these: It might have been.

  ~ John Greenleaf Whittier quotes

• "One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin."

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Sin, General, God

• All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, War, Power, Mind, Giving, Vernon Howard, The Power of Your Supermind, Give, Receive, Defeat

• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

  ~ Winston Churchill quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• If you have revolutionary potential, then you have a moral imperative to make the world a better place.

  ~ Guy Kawasaki quotes

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