“To me, being alive means to continue to change, never to be where I was before.”— Jerry Garcia, amazon.com
“Whenever we feel that no one is paying any attention to what we are doing, let us think of the pianist. He was talking to God through his work, and nothing else mattered.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing; but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“According to logotherapy, this striving for to find a meaning in one's life is the primary motivational force in man.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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…”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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."”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.’”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com