“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
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”Tagged: self, Self-awareness, situation, Change, Challenge