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:-

• What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  ~ Rollo May quotes

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• Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Success, Live, Act, Life, Rich, Poverty

• Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

  ~ Aristotle quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom

• People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

  ~ Soren Aabye Kierkegaard quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Kierkegaard, Demand, Freedom, Thought, People

• You have to make it happen.

  ~ Joe Greene quotes

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