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. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources
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“If you have those teammate traits—if you’re the one who’s trustworthy, kind, committed, communicative, consistent, generous—then you’ve got the rare stuff that’s worth fighting for. It’s also the rare stuff you should protect. And if someone doesn’t recognize those qualities in you, they’ll never value what’s valuable in you. You should keep them at arm’s length until they do. In the meantime, they’re definitely not a person worth fighting for.”
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
“Start quantifying your days by how many healthy, positive things you accomplished, and you will see how quickly you begin to make progress.”
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
“But you lose nothing by communicating. The right relationship is one where things get better when you communicate. If your relationship gets worse when one of you speaks the truth, you’re in the wrong relationship.”
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
“Don’t worry about doing it well; just do it.”
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
“In this way, curiosity helps you step out of fear, and by doing so you rob the thing you’re afraid of of the power it has over you.”
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
Katie’s 2025 Year in Books
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