“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”Tagged: purpose, Pleasure, Distraction
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”Tagged: Change, Changing Ourselves, Change Within, Problems, situations
“Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”Tagged: Living, Life
“I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I…”Tagged: Prison, Prison Life
“That brought thoughts of my own wife to mind. And as we stumbled on for miles, slipping on icy spots, supporting each other time and again, dragging one another up and onward, nothing was said, but we both knew: each of us was thinking of his wife. Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars…”Tagged: Love, The Power of Love
“We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, purpose, Fate
“We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, purpose
“According to logotherapy, this striving for to find a meaning in one's life is the primary motivational force in man.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, motivation, purpose
“Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, humor, Laughter
“A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and deepens disappointments; it undermines and diminishes pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction; it may even lead to depression or physical…”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Negativity, Attitude, Positivity
“Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, 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.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Decisions, Existence
“The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear any more — except his God.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Fear, Faith, God
“I said that someone looks down on each of us in difficult hours; a friend wife, somebody alive or dead, or a God—and would not expect us to disappoint him. He would hope to find us suffering proudly—not miserably—knowing how to die.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Suffering, Hope
“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Goals, Responsibility
“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.’”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Judgments, judging
“The more one forgets himself — by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love — the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Sacrifice, purpose
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Change, Challenges
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Choices
“The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Love, Salvation
“The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Love