Quotes About Direction

If life was simpler we wouldn't get lost in it

ignorant of the place it had been and blind to where it was headed.

eight miles to the southwest.

I had learned a basic lesson: that the secret of avoiding boredom is to have a strong sense of purpose.

from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

Keep on the path and you will not see the ruined people, so do not stray from the path.

And when you go around in circles, brother, the world is very big, but if you plow straight ahead it's small enough.

As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.

Don't aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.

T]he full gravity of the responsibility that every man bears throughout every moment of his life: the responsibility for what he will make of the next hour, for how he will shape the next day.

Ser hombre implica dirigirse hacia algo o alguien distinto de uno mismo, bien sea para realizar un valor, bien para alcanzar un sentido o para encontrar a otro ser humano.

people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life

Logotherapy conceives of conscience as a prompter which, if need be, indicates the direction in which we have to move in a given life situation. In order to carry out such a task, conscience must apply a measuring stick to the situation one is confronted with, and this situation has to be evaluated in the light of a set of criteria, in the light of a hierarchy of values

As to the causation of the feeling of meaninglessness, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying vein, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.

A man who let himself decline because he could not see any future goal found himself occupied with retrospective thoughts.

People have enough to live by but nothing to live for.

Being human means always being directed toward something other than oneself. [...] Human existence is not characterized by self-actualization but rather by what I call self-transcendence—pointing beyond itself.

Just as the boomerang returns to the hunter who has thrown it, only if it has missed its target, man returns to himself, reflects upon himself and becomes over-concerned with self-interpretation only when he has missed his mission, and has been frustrated in his search for meaning.

But ultimately man can actualize himself only by fulfilling a meaning out there in the world rather than within himself so that self-actualization becomes an effect of "self-transcendence." Being human means relating and being directed to something or someone other than oneself.

78% said their first goal was finding a purpose and meaning to my life.

As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

We don't invent our mission; we detect it.