Viktor E. Frankl Quotes About Purpose
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In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
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There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.
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Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.
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[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.
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Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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