Mans Search For Meaning Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Campbell, Baruch Spinoza, Mary J. Blige and many others.
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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.
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality
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.
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features.
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.
The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
