“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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…”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: ‘He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.’”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“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.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them.’”— Edward De Bono, goodreads.com
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?”— Jacques Lacan, goodreads.com
“The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.”— Alfred Adler, brainyquote.com
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”— John Green, amazon.com
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com