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“Life means to have something definite to do—a mission to fulfill—and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.”

- Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955); philosopher

This quote is brought to you at the good folks at the Foundation for a Better Life. This quote is about learning. Enjoy!

“I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now…the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), excerpt from Letters to a Young Poet

This quote is brought to you at the good folks at the Foundation for a Better Life. This quote is about unity. Enjoy!

“Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family, friends, neighbors and the woman who you hardly notice who cleans your office.”

- Eric Weiner; author, national public radio correspondent

This quote is brought to you at the good folks at the Foundation for a Better Life. This quote is about teaching by example. Enjoy!

“I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children; certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.”

- Fred Rogers (1928-2003), U.S. children’s TV personality, educator, writer

This quote is brought to you at the good folks at the Foundation for a Better Life. This quote is about listening. Enjoy!

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”

- Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger (1893-1990); psychiatrist, founder of the Menninger Foundation

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“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

- Pope John XXIII (1881-1963), 261st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church