Mans Search For Meaning Quotes - Page 2

• Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Purpose, Answers, Existence

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Fate, Suffering And Death, Meaning Of Life

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.56, 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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• 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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• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Men, Answers

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.110, 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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• 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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Men, What Matters

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.109, Beacon Press

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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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• 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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• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Viktor E. Frankl (1966). “Man's Search for Meaning”

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• It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Looking To The Future, Live By

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.60, Beacon Press

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