IT IS CURIOSITY, IT IS THE PATH

After thinking a little about love, this week I want to point out about this virtue, a force without which we all would not be, to start with, here: curiosity.

Wishing to learn helps transform us, makes us learners in life and, therefore, it is a condition for the luck and happiness that we can get if we face opportunities. The entrepreneur, father and mother, the sage, the artist walk through necessary paths of curiosity to discover and nurture their talents.

Plato said “Necessity is the Mother of Invention”, and truth is that this search for what we need contains one of the ingredients of creativity: being curious. If we remember the words by Viktor Frankl, who has a reason why, will find a way how: curiosity comes along with passion.

Thus, a Good life is a matter of curious people, as many other curious ones have pointed through History. Here you are a decalogue of aphorisms that have helped me to reflect on this ability to see the world through the eyes of a child.

I wish you a happy week,

Álex

“Love is merely curiosity.”

GIOVANNI GIACOMO CASANOVA

 

“Youth is not measured by the years, but by the curiosity we keep.”

SALVADOR PANIKER

 

“Boredom is cured with curiosity. Curiosity is not cured with anything.”

Attributed to DOROTHY PARKER

 

“Constant happiness is curiosity.”

ALICE MUNRO

 

“The saddest people in the world is such that when ignorant, they prefer hatred to curiosity.”

DANIEL ARZOLA

 

“There are only two ways of looking at life. The first, as though nothing is a miracle, the other as if everything was miraculous.”

ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

“My life has been the poem I would have liked to write,
but I would not have been able to live it and write it at the same time.”

H.D. THOREAU

 

“See it once is better than hearing a hundred times.”

CHINESE PROVERB

 

“Study! Not to know one more thing, but to know it better.”

SENECA

 

“Just run out of all the craziness, so you come to the land of wisdom.”

LUDWIG BÖRNE