Quotes About Purpose

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis.

The first is by creating a work or by doing a deed. The second is by experiencing something or encountering someone; in other words, meaning can be found not only in work but also in love.

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. That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.

Having been is the surest kind of being.

es el sufrimiento en sí mismo el que madura o enturbia al hombre, es el hombre el que da sentido al sufrimiento.

Haz, bir yan ürün ya da yan etkidir ve öyle kalmas? gerekir ve kendi içinde bir amaç yap?ld??? ölçüde yok edilmiÅŸ olur.

happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to "be happy.

the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.

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

La salvación del hombre está en el amor y a través del amor

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

It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

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.

I observed that procreation is not the only meaning of life, for then life in itself would become meaningless, and something which in itself is meaningless cannot be rendered meaningful merely by its perpetuation

In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

Nada puede deshacerse y nada puede volverse a hacer. Haber sido es la forma más segura de ser.

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 he 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. Happiness must happen, and he same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

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

Actúa como si vivieras por segunda vez y la primera lo hubieras hecho tan desacertadamente como estás a punto de hacerlo ahora».

Life ultimately means taking the 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.

Logotherapy tries to make the patient fully aware of his own responsibleness; therefore, it must leave to him the option for what, to what, or to whom he understands himself to be responsible. That is why a logotherapist is the least tempted of all psychotherapists to impose value judgments on his patients, for he will

I have termed this constitutive characteristic "the self-transcendence of human existence." It denotes the fact that being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

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

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 to fulfill.