Mans Search For Meaning Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl, Harold S. Kushner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Baruch Spinoza, Joseph Campbell, Vince Lombardi and many others.
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
We had to learn…that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
Why bad things happen to good people
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to
the future…And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments
of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to
the task.
the future…And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments
of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to
the task.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away –
that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man’s attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
