In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLA 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.”
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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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.
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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.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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