You know it’s funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.
You’ve got to find a way to survive because they win when your soul dies.
Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.
We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn’t an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.
I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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.
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.
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.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
Despair is suffering without meaning.
Life is not what it’s supposed to be. It’s what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.
Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.
Be curious, not judgmental.