The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing.
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.
Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.
The thoughts you think today determine the results you’ll see tomorrow.
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.
Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity’s greatest achievements.
Self-efficacy is the belief in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.