Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
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 • Man's Search for Meaning
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
This emphasis on responsibleness is reflected in the categorical imperative of logotherapy, which is: "Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!"
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
The more one forgets himself-by giving himself to a cause to serve or another personto love-the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible
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