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 Sullivan, American poet and educator]
  • Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
    [Plato, Greek philosopher]
  • The wind is rising! We must try to live! (Translated)
    [Paul Valéry, French poet and essayist]
  • 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.
    [Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher]
  • The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
    [Mark Twain, American author and humorist]
  • Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
    [Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist]
  • To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
    [Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright]
  • You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it fearlessly.
    [Steve Maraboli, American author and behavioral scientist]

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]
  • 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 Jr., American actor and philanthropist]
  • Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
    [Socrates, Greek philosopher]
  • Stay hungry, stay foolish.
    [Steve Jobs, American entrepreneur]
  • The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
    [Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist]
  • I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
    [Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist]
  • Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
    [Ken Robinson, British educator and author]
  • The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
    [Dorothy Parker, American poet and critic]
  • Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
    [Zora Neale Hurston, American author and anthropologist]

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]
  • To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
    [Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher]
  • Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
    [Anne Lamott, American novelist and author]
  • You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.
    [Gautama Buddha, spiritual teacher and founder of Buddhism]
  • The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
    [Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst]
  • Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
    [Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi mystic]
  • We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
    [William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet]