Mans Search For Meaning Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Motivational, Expression, Challenges

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.30, Souvenir Press

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• To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. 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. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, World, May

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.91, Beacon Press

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• Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Beloved, Search For Meaning, Persons

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

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• I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Attitude, Suffering And Death, Lasts

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.56, Beacon Press

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• Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Lying, Opportunity, Men

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

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• 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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Past, Reality, Envy

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

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

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• Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Mean, Responsibility, Growth

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.82, Beacon Press

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• 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."

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Responsibility, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead 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. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Mean, Responsibility

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

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• Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Challenges, Meaning Of Life

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• The salvation of man is through love and in love.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Love, Life, Men

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

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• When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Lying, Acceptance, Unique

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.64, Beacon Press

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• Live as if you were living already for the second time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Coaching

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• I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Deeds Done, Forget, Good Deeds

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.123, Beacon Press

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• Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Love, Personality, Way

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

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• For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. 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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Change, Song

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

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• 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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Courage, Grief, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.64, 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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• Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Prayer, Men, Our Generation

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.102, Beacon Press

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