Quotes About Purpose

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.

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

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.

We do not ask life what the meaning of life is. Life asks us, what is the meaning of your life. And life demands our answer.

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. 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. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Inimene on kõikjal saatusega silmitsi ja sunnitud otsustama, kas kujundada kannatus saavutuseks.

Armastus on ülim eesmärk, milleni inimene võib jõuda.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment..

man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

It is our responsibility to look for meaning in life, even in the darkest times, and whatever the circumstances we always have a vestige of free will.

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. Nevertheless, say yes to life; A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp

We don't invent our mission; we detect it.

Vivir es sufrir, sobrevivir es hallarle sentido al sufrimiento.

I am convinced that in the final analysis, there is no situation that does not contain within it the seed of a meaning.

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

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... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.

Podstata lidské existence spo?ívá v její sebetranscendenci. Být ?lovÄ›kem znamená vždy už být zam??en a nastaven na nÄ›co nebo nÄ›koho, být oddán nÄ›jakému dílu.

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 one-self or as a by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Having shown the beneficial impact of meaning orientation, I turn to the detrimental influence of that feeling of which so many patients complain today, namely the feeling of the total and ultimate meaninglessness of their lives. They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for. They are haunted by the experience of their inner emptiness, a void within themselves; they are caught in that situation which I have called the existential vacuum.