Live a life as a monument to your soul.

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

— Craig Brown

“I want to make of your life a monument For the days you lingered in sadness With high towers and wide gardens With stones…

— Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne

“When we gaze at the magnificence of an ancient monument and ascribe its achievement to one man, we are guilty of spiritual embezzlement. We…

— Ayn Rand

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you…

— Ayn Rand

I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the…

— Sue Thoele

“What is true for you? What makes your heart smile? When do you feel most yourself? What do you love to do? Ask yourself…

— Scott Stabile

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all…

— Chaske Spencer

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less,…

— Samuel Johnson

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an…

— Gae Aulenti

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington…

— Morris Sheppard

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be…

— George Washington

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their…

— Shigeru Ban

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

— George Bernard Shaw