Mans Search For Meaning Quotes - Page 2

• Why bad things happen to good people

  Harold S. Kushner

  Erosion, Everything Happens For A Reason, People

  When Bad Things Happen to Good People ch. 1 (1981)

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• And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Bodybuilding, Stronger, Doe

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Successful, Giving, Suffering

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.136, Beacon Press

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• If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational Life, Wish, Together

  "Man's Search For Meaning".

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• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  World, Venture, Helping

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.105, Beacon Press

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• You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Feels, Happens

  Viktor Emil Frankl, Harold S. Kushner, William J. Winslade (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Existence

  Viktor E. Frankl (1964). “Man S Search For Meaning”, p.92, Ratna Sagar

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• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Responsibility, Liberty, West

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Mean, People, Today

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, World, May

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  "How Doing What You Love Serves Humanity" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2009.

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Rise Above, Well Known, Life Altering

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.51, Beacon Press

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• No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Honesty, Humility, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Spiritual, Self, Alive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.36, Beacon Press

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• Don't aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run — in the long run, I say — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Motivational, Running, Caring

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.49, Jaico Publishing House

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• One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Freedom, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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• ...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Thinking, Meditation, Answers

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Understanding, Suffering

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Race, Two

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.70, Beacon Press

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• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Essence, Beloved Person

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Real, Wife, Mind

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Asking, Needed

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Fighting, Self, Soul

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.39, Beacon Press

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