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:-

• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

  ~ Mark Twain quotes from Autobiography with Letters, Phelps

  Motivational Quotes on: Autobiography, Mark Twain, Life, Age

• How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Experience, Henry David Thoreau, New, Explore, Thoreau, Universe, World, Thought

• Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment—not discouragement—you will find the strength there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures, followed by wreckage, were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes

  Famous Quotes on: The Moment, Courage, Love, Character, Failure, Flow, Act, Follow, Joseph Campbell, Great, Life, Nature, Challenge, Fate, Fail, Strength

• Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Hope

• If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

  ~ Warren Buffet quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: War, Life, Hero

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