“Things don’t need to be perfect to be worth doing.”
“Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“These values, however, cannot be espoused and adopted by us on a conscious level—they are something that we are.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Even if things only take such a good turn in one of a thousand cases," my explanation continues, "who can guarantee that in your case it will not happen one day, sooner or later? But in the first place, you have to live to see the day on which it may happen, so you have to survive in order to see that day dawn, and from now on the responsibility for survival does not leave you.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to "be happy." Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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