Source Unknown Life Quotations

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not ''happiness and pleasure'' but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Life is too short to live the same day twice!!

Life is like a penyou can cross outbut never erase

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself!

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.

Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything.

Be alert to give service -- what counts most in life is what we do for others.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

Reincarnation: People coming back to life at quitting time.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . ."

Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be fore sworn in the day of trial.

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?