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 opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is—here’s the clincher—boredom.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Happiness, Work

• In reality, there are an infinite number of perspectives, but we act as if there were only one.

  ~ Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel quotes

• When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  ~ Buckminster Fuller quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Think, Solution, Work, Beauty, Now, Problem

• Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

  ~ John W. Gardner quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Happiness, Talent, Power

• Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

  ~ George Chapman quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Think, George Chapman, Now

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