Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset