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:-

• …to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared

  ~ Jeanette Winterson quotes from Gut Symmetries

  Self-Development Quotes on: Risk, Love, Think, Live, Better, Great, Fire, Lies, Discover, Rent, Fall, Try, Beauty

• That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Truth, Joy

• Most of us do not “sculpt” our lives. We accept what comes our way…then we gripe about it.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

  Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Live, Accept, Feel

• The years teach us much the days never knew.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Experience

• That's the thing about U2. The band always feels like it's coming, never that it's arrived.

  ~ Bono quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: U2

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