Quotes About Purpose

la logoterapia considera que la esencia de la existencia consiste en la capacidad del ser humano para responder responsablemente a las demandas que la vida le plantea en cada situación particular.

It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to these questions we can respond only by becoming responsible for our existence.

Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue. And it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, 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.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth...In fact freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

Life ultimately means taking responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. These tasks and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning of life in a general way.

There are] three possible ways to find meaning in life—even up to the last moment, the last breath…1) a deed we do, a work we create; 2) an experience, a human encounter, a love; and 3) when confronted with an unchangeable fate (such as an incurable disease), a change of attitude toward that fate.

The truth is that as the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Even more people today have the means to live but no meaning to live for.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

Then live your life, above all things. Make use of your I while you have it.

It is nothing to die; it is horrible not to live.

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.

It is nothing to die. It is dreadful not to live.

C'est une étrange prétention des hommes de vouloir que l'amour conduise quelque part

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: What is the use?

The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.

What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. The good God, having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected.

Lavorava per vivere; poi, sempre per vivere, poiché anche il cuore ha fame, amò.

God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes less steep.

To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have done nothing if he didn't do that! His whole life would have been useless, all his penitence wasted, and there would be only one thing left to say: What is the point?

Ceux qui vivent, ce sont ceux qui luttent ; ce sont Ceux dont un dessein ferme emplit l'âme et le front. Ceux qui d'un haut destin gravissent l'âpre cime. Ceux qui marchent pensifs, épris d'un but sublime.

after philosophy, action is required;