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:-

• Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  ~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Luck, Abraham Lincoln, Flow, New, Best, Thought

• Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.

  ~ Dr. David Hawkins quotes from Power vs. Force

  Inspirational Quotes on: Genius, Power, Great, Edge, Within, Knowledge

• Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.

  ~ Richard Bach quotes from Jonathon Livingston Seagull

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision, Purpose, Life

• I operate according to a definite, unerring law…I know the outcome before I start.

  ~ Roger McDonald quotes from Message of a Master

  Inspirational Quotes on: Outcome, Master

• Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

  ~ Byron Katie quotes from Loving What Is

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Live, Katie, Act

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