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 don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And, the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, 'O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless -- of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.' That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

  ~ John Keating quotes from Dead Poets Society

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• "All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy—it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it."

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from The Teachings of Don Juan

  Famous Quotes on: Vision, Purpose, Joy, Warrior

• All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- strange complaint to come form the mouths of people who have had to live.

  ~ Mark Twain quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Mark Twain, Live, People

• Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort—expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.

  ~ Dan Millman quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Focus, Energy, Goals, Purpose, Desire, Simplicity, Dan Millman, Economy, Effort, Efficiency, Expand, Achieve

• When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else. The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room.

  ~ Steve Pavlina quotes from http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/self-discipline-hard-work/

  Motivational Quotes on: Hard Work, Discipline, Success, Diligence

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