Search For Meaning Quotes - Page 5

• Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Chaos, Stimulus And Response, Mans Search For Meaning

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

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• If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suffering, Meaning Of Life, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.73, Beacon Press

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• There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Dignity, Worthy

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

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• 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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Giving, Causes, Self Actualization

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• 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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Bears, Philosopher

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.118, Beacon Press

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• For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself

  Mary J. Blige

  I Like You, Looks, Time On Earth

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• What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Past, Reality, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• 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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Dedication, Causes

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Attitude, Learning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.82, 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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• Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Motivation, Men, Chiefs

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• In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.

  Alan Lightman

  Dream, Real, Order

  Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.5, Vintage

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• The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of plot, character, and language in absurdist drama. Order is a falsehood that we, God, those who came before us, have imposed on a random universe. However, the absurdist is confronted with a curious paradox: though he believes the Universe to be meaningless, he cannot abandon the search for meaning--or he will die.

  Walter Wykes

  Drama, Believe, Character

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• Even though the search for meaning is debunked today, the cries of the human heart can be smothered for only so long. In these yearnings, the search for significance and fulfillment continues.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Heart, Long, Today

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

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• My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

  Karen Armstrong

  Art, Way, Study

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth, to explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Struggle, Men, Giving

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• Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls, and, for this reason, needs to be understood less in terms of budgets or fiscal cycles and more in terms of where we locate the sacred, of where we search for meaning and transcendence, and of how we think about justice, equality, and the future of our world.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Running, Spiritual, Thinking

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• The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

  Gail Sheehy

  Passion, Secret, Pursue

  Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.153, Ballantine Books

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• Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human.

  Vera John-Steiner

  Thinking, Weaving, Shapes

  Vera John-Steiner (1997). “Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking”, p.210, Oxford University Press

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• It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

  Ricky Williams

  Soul, Whispering, Pushing

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• Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Life Lesson, Loss, Guilt

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler (2012). “Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.

  Radka Donnell

  Art, Quilts, Silence

  Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns

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• We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it?

  John Green

  Real, Games, Play

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• I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.

  Rob Zerban

  Reading, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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