Life Quotes

“My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.”

-- Barack Obama

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”

-- Joseph Campbell

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

-- Robert Frost

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

-- Muhammad Ali

“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.”

-- Albert Einstein

“I love life because what more is there?”

-- Anthony Hopkins

“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”

-- Henry David Thoreau

“When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.”

-- George Carlin

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

-- Mahatma Gandhi

“Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”

-- Jose Ortega y Gasset