Quotes About Mindfulness

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge.

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There is a scene

paradoxical intention" on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes. In German I described paradoxical intention as early as 1939.10 In this approach the phobic patient is invited to intend, even if only for a moment, precisely that which he fears.

Tenemos que dejar de hacernos preguntas sobre el significado de la vida y, en vez de ello, pensar en nosotros como en seres a quienes la vida les inquiriera continua e incesantemente.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!'' It seems to me

man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

It is one of the basic tenets of logotherapy that man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly.

I have termed this constitutive characteristic "the self-transcendence of human existence.

Frankl would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

la libertad interior puede elevar al hombre por encima de un destino adverso

to live my thoughts instead of merely putting them on paper?

will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run—in the long run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.

Live as if you living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

Viktor E. Frankl

Suffering ceases to be suffering when it finds meaning

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. In

El hombre que se dejaba vencer por la ausencia de futuro ocupaba su mente con pensamientos retrospectivos. Ya me he referido a la tendencia a refugiarse en el pasado para apaciguar el horror del presente haciéndolo menos real. Pero

Between the stimulus and the response there is a space, and in that space is your power and your freedom.