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In making personal choices, as affirm our autonomy. “A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self determining.

What he becomes — within the limits of endowment and environment — he has made out of himself.”

“The choices humans make should be active rather than passive.”

“It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to these questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.”

3 meanings
- creating a work or doing a deed
- love
- even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by doing so, change himself

Personal tragedy turned triumph

Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown

“doesn’t this final meaning, too, depend on whether or not the potential meaning of each single situation has been actualities to the best of the respective individuals knowledge and belief?”

Unemployment neurosis wow

“The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self management, perhaps to cure.”

“That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two — the “race” of the decent man and the “race” of the indecent man.”

“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how”

“Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.”

“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty and whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”

“— that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.”

“a man who has nothing left in this world, may still know bliss, be it for only a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.”

This book is devastating yet so well written. I can’t believe I read this in high school.

It’s so weird how coming back to certain things at a different point in your life can make them so different

“There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.”

“And yet sleep came and brought oblivion and relief from pain for a few hours.”

“Quite wrong! I had been convinced that there were certain things I just could not do: I could not sleep without this or I could not live with that or the other.”

The preface is written so emotionally, wow

“-I do not at all see in the bestseller status of my book an achievement and accomplishment on my part but rather an expression of the misery of our time: if hundreds of thousands of people reach out for a book whose very title promises to deal with the question of a meaning to life, it must be a question that burns under their fingernails.”

“There are worse things than dying.” I am sweating

I am 😦 Andarna?!!!

THE IRIDS LETS GO