Life itself is a quotation. — Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short story writer and essayist

purpose#

  • Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
    [Mahatma Gandhi, Indian lawyer and activist]
  • The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
    [Pope Benedict XVI, Former head of the Catholic Church]
  • The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
    [Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter]
  • He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
    [Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher]
  • What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
    [Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist]
  • I wrote a pep talk recently to myself on a bar napkin: no matter which road you take, it will be both glorious and unbearable. Every road is lonely. Every road, holy. The only error is not walking forward.
    [Joy Sulivan, American poet and educator]

curiosity#

  • The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
    [Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist and realist]
  • Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
    [Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist and chemist]
  • I know very little about acting. I just jump in, have fun, and see what happens.
    [Robert Downey Junior, American actor and philanthropist]
  • Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
    [Socrates, Greek philosopher]
  • Stay hungry, stay foolish.
    [Steve Jobs, American entrepreneur]

self#

  • It is not our abilities that show us what we truly are. It is our choices.
    [Albus Dumbledore, fictional character from “Harry Potter”]
  • I think, therefore I am.
    [René Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician]
  • Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
    [Aristotle, Greek philosopher]
  • The unexamined life is not worth living.
    [Socrates, Greek philosopher]
  • What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
    [Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher]