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Viktor E. Frankl30 quotes“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.”
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl 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. FranklViktor E. Frankl Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
Viktor E. FranklViktor E. Frankl
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