Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment...
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.
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.
Nadie es conocedor de la esencia de otro ser humano si no lo ama.
To be sure, man’s search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium.
The meaning of your life is to help others find the meaning of theirs.” “That was it, exactly,” Frankl said. “Those are the very words I had written.” WILLIAM J. WINSLADE.
Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning? For, if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for a life whose meaning depends upon such a happenstance – as whether one escapes or not – ultimately would not be worth living at all.
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land.
Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man’s world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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.
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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.
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.