I'm looking for some cool life quotes that I can say to myself as I wake up, shower, and get ready for work.
No religious quotes, please.
2006-07-14 10:24:33 · 11 answers · asked by yes1guy1no 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
This is my favorite......
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Look up some other famous Emerson quotes. He's got a lot of good ones.
http://www.transcendentalists.com/emerson_quotes.htm
2006-07-14 10:30:26 · answer #1 · answered by Sephra 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
This web page has quite a few: http://www.angelfire.com/sc/mudpie/cpbook.html#maxims
Examples:
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~Chinese Proverb
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. ~Henry Ford
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Abraham Lincoln
2006-07-14 17:31:24 · answer #2 · answered by Muddy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Throw your dreams into the space like a kite..and you never know what it brings back..a new friend,a new home a new love,
2006-07-14 17:28:59 · answer #3 · answered by realwoman_34 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Civilization can not attain to it's perfection until the last brick from the last church falls on the last preist."
-Emile Zola
(It's not religious, it's anti-religious)
2006-07-14 17:28:52 · answer #4 · answered by Sydney 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Today is another blank canvas. What will I paint?
2006-07-14 17:41:44 · answer #5 · answered by Elijah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a beautiful lie.
2006-07-14 17:35:24 · answer #6 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Singing.....................
"Wake up! Wake up!....
Tweet Tweet....the little bird of paradise....says Wake up!"
2006-07-14 17:30:34 · answer #7 · answered by tulips 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will have a good day
2006-07-14 17:31:28 · answer #8 · answered by mary b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow, i hope my erection goesdown soon...
2006-07-14 17:28:28 · answer #9 · answered by metalheart19 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"There can be only one."-Highlander
-J.
2006-07-14 17:38:37 · answer #10 · answered by Jason 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋