Search For Meaning Quotes - Page 5

• 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 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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• 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 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 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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• We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation-just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer-we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Cancer, Fate, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.111, Beacon Press

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• There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Attitude, Men

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

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• We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Live In The Moment, Matter, Moments

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• It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Here I Am, Said, Eternal Life

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.58, Beacon Press

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• It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away -
  that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Taken

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

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• Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

  Mitt Romney

  Spiritual, Commitment, World

  Mitt Romney's commencement speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, www.washingtonpost.com. May 14, 2012.

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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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• The only Sundance [2011] film about cults that could actually have life as a cult film, THE WOODS has the greatest comic insight into why our current culture might inspire a search for meaning in the first place.

  Karina Longworth

  Inspire, Culture, Might

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• Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Instant, Humans, Human Beings

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.129, 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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• The sticker has no meaning, but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning.

  Shepard Fairey

  People, Causes, Sticker

  "The Medium Has No Meaning". www.wired.com. August 1, 1996.

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• Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin.

  Eric Greitens

  Meaningful, Men, Compassion

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• The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Tasks, Situation

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Nov 05, 2013

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• I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

  Kim Novak

  Pain, Acting, Fame

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

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• Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Motivation, Unique, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.78, Beacon Press

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• Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation on the irreducible gift of one's own counsel in the face of great suffering, as well as a reminder of the responsibility each of us owes in valuing the community of our humanity. There are few wiser, kinder, or more comforting challenges than Frankl's.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Responsibility, Men, Community

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• I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Believe, Men, Different

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• I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Parent, Understanding

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• There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

  William Eggleston

  Photographer, Reason, Particular

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