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:-

• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  ~ Teilhard de Chardin quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Experience, Spiritual, Spirit

• There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

• Here's what I mean by building your own subculture...I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things--how we think, what we value--those you must choose for yourself. You can't let anyone--or any society--determine those for you.

  ~ Mitch Albom quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

  Self-Development Quotes on: Think, Light, Obey, Little Things

• For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

  Motivational Quotes on: Dreams, Dream, Work, People

• Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

  ~ Jesus quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Interconnectedness, God

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