Quotes About Meaning

Pleasure in itself cannot give our existence meaning; thus the lack of pleasure cannot take away meaning from life, which now seems obvious to us.

the fact, and only the fact, that we are mortal, that our lives are finite, that our time is restricted and our possibilities are limited, this fact is what makes it meaningful to do something, to exploit a possibility and make it become a reality, to fulfill it, to use our time and occupy it. Death gives us a compulsion to do so.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Due to the essentially self-transcendent quality of human existence man is a being reaching out beyond himself.

But the whole of life stands in the face of death, and if this man had been right then all our lives would be meaningless, were we only to strive for pleasure and nothing else – preferably the most pleasure and the highest degree of pleasure possible. Pleasure in itself cannot give our existence meaning; thus the lack of pleasure cannot take away meaning from life, which already seems obvious to us.

he says: I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I worked – and behold, duty was joy.

It is a tenet of Logotherapy that transcendence is the essence of existence. What is meant by this tenet is that existence is authentic only to the extent to which it points to something that is not itself. [...] Man [...] finds himself only to the extent to which he loses himself in the first place, be it for the sake of something or somebody, for the sake of a cause or a fellow-man, or "for God's sake.

Et si la vie a un sens, il faut qu'il y ait un sens à la souffrance. La souffrance, comme le destin et la mort, fait partie de la vie. Sans la souffrance et la mort, la vie humaine demeure incomplète.

Whenever there was an opportunity for it, one had to give them a why—an aim—for their lives, in order to strengthen them to bear the terrible how of their existence. 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. The typical reply with which such a man rejected all encouraging arguments was, "I have nothing to expect from life any more." What sort of answer can one give to that?

When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer [...] his unique opportunity lies in the way he bears his burden.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Logotherapy focuses rather on the future, that is to say on the meanings to be fulfilled by the patient in his future.

To have a good conscience can never be the basis of a morally good existence; it is, rather, the result.

Modern man needs to be considered as more than a psycho-physical reality. His spiritual existence cannot be neglected. He is not a mere organism. He is a person.

Our industrialized society is out to satisfy all needs, and our consumer society is even out to create needs in order to satisfy them; but the most human of all human needs—the need to see a meaning in one's life—remains unsatisfied. People may have enough to live by; but more often than not they do not have anything to live for.

Gariptir; bazen, hedef ÅŸa??ran bir darbe, hedef bulandan daha çok yaralay?c? olabiliyor.

Tình yêu không ch? g?n li?n vá»›i sá»± hi?n h?u c?a th? xác. Tình yêu tìm th?y ý nghÄ©a sâu s?c nh?t trong tâm trí, trong chính ná»™i tâm c?a con ng??i. Cho dù ng??i ?y có thá»±c sá»± t?n t?i, có còn s?ng hay không cÅ©ng không quan tr?ng.

ng??i ta có th? l?y Ä'i c?a má»™t ng??i m?i th?, ch? tr? má»™t Ä'i?u: sá»± tá»± do - sá»± tá»± do trong vi?c lá»±a ch?n thái Ä'á»™ s?ng trong b?t k? hoàn c?nh nào, và sá»± tá»± do lá»±a ch?n hÆ°á»›ng Ä'i c?a mình.

M]an not only finds his life meaningful through his deeds, his works, his creativity, but also through his experiences, his encountering what is true, good, and beautiful in the world, and, last but not least, his encounter with another, a fellow human being in his very uniqueness.

Man exists authentically only when he is not driven, but, rather, responsible.

The meaning of life must be conceived in terms of the specific meaning of a personal life in a given situation. Each man is unique, after all, and each man's life is singular; no one is replaceable nor is his life repeatable. This twofold uniqueness adds to man's responsibleness.

As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of a meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately, Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather, he must recognize that - It is he that who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life, and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life. To life, he can only respond by being responsible.