Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLife can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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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.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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…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.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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