“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable…”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Society, Standards, Blurred Lines
“Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Change
“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.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Responsibility, actions
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Expectations
“Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Happiness, Pleasure
“In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Suffering, Sacrifice
“There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: ‘He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.’”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, purpose
“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.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, purpose
“Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Happiness, Success
“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 personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, purpose, Success, Happiness
“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.”Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, purpose
“So 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!”Tagged: Mistakes, Life, chances, Courage
“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”Tagged: Suffering, Courage, Bravery, Shame, Sensitivity
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”Tagged: self, Self-awareness, situation, Change, Challenge
“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”Tagged: Don't Give Up, Moving Foward, Living
“I would define a specialist as a man who no longer sees the forest of truth for the trees of facts.”Tagged: strategy
“The boomerang comes back to the hunter who has thrown it, only if it has missed its target.”Tagged: strategy
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”Tagged: Purpose of Life