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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“No matter how hard you might try, you can’t escape the spiritual bond between you and your Maker. You can’t drink it away. You can’t smoke it away. You can’t sex it away.”
― Crushing: God Turns Pressure into Power
― Crushing: God Turns Pressure into Power
“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“The finished product you see on the peaks is the end result of the resurrection in the valley.”
― Crushing: God Turns Pressure into Power
― Crushing: God Turns Pressure into Power
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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