Quotes About Search

That was a pretty good laptop, but Reagan's glad to lose it. Sometimes sacrifices must be made in the search for sweet lulz

I've finally come to understand that life itself is the Fun House. All you want is that door marked EXIT, the escape to a place where Real Life will be; and you can never find it.

There is a method to the madness. What they have in common is the search for cause.

already know. It's like finding a needle in a haystack—

People carry in their hearts an inconsolable longing for something and they are never quite sure what it is.

The elaborate search for a word, like the turning of a chain handle on a well. Dropping the bucket down the mineshaft of the mind. Taking up empty bucket after empty bucket until, finally, at an unexpected moment, it caught hard and had a sudden weight and she raised the word, then delved down into the emptiness once more.

I'm not God. --Then find someone who is, man.

His theme was happiness—what it is and what it might not have been, where he might find it and where it might have disappeared.

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

Once an individual's search for a meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering.

When man can't find meaning in his life, he distracts himself with pleasure.

Meaning must be found and cannot be given.

if hundreds of thousands of people reach out for a book whose very title promises to deal with the question of a meaning to life, it must be a question that burns under their fingernails.

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a secondary rationalization of instinctual drives.

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to be happy. But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to be happy. Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy

The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.

But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to "be happy." Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically.

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium.

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health.

Once an individual's search for a meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering.

human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

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