Quotes About Meaning

And what about man? Are you sure that the human world is a terminal point in the evolution of the cosmos?

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

en logoterapia se denomina «suprasentido». Al hombre no se le exige, como predican los filósofos existencialistas, que soporte lo absurdo de la vida, sino que asuma racionalmente su capacidad para captar la sensatez incondicional de la vida. El logos es más profundo que la lógica.

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.

the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most

So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to create a sound amount of tension through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

El deseo sexual ni siquiera aparecía en los sueños de los prisioneros, lo que contradice el postulado del psicoanálisis que asegura que «los deseos inhibidos» se manifiestan de forma especial en el sueño.

Whoever has a why to live can bear almost any how," as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared.

I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how.

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.

If it were avoidable, however, the meaningful thing to do would be to remove its cause, be it psychological, biological or political. To suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

I]n the last resort, man should not ask What is the meaning of my life? but should realize that he himself is being questioned. Life is putting its problems to him, and it is up to him to respond to these questions by being responsible; he can only answer to life by answering for his life.

that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from

Nietzsche, "He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.

el amor es la meta última y más alta a la que puede aspirar el hombre. Percibí entonces, en toda su profundidad, el significado del mayor secreto que la poesía, el pensamiento y las creencias intentan comunicar: la salvación del hombre consiste en el amor y pasa por el amor.

The past few years have certainly disenchanted us, but they have also shown us that what is human is still valid; they have taught us that it is all a question of the individual human being. After all, in the end, what was left was the human being! Because it was the human being that survived amidst all the filth ofthe recent past.

Thus it can be seen that mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become. Such a tension is inherent in the human being and therefore is indispensable to mental well-being. We should not, then, be hesitant about challenging man with a potential meaning for him

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how," could be the guiding motto for all psychotherapeutic

In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. Of

They must not lose hope but should keep their courage in the certainty that the hopelessness of our struggle did not detract from its dignity and its meaning.

far we have shown that the meaning of life always changes, but that it never ceases to be. According to logotherapy, we can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2)