Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
Victor Frankl
Related Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly... VIKTOR FRANKL By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to... VIKTOR E. FRANKL The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the... VIKTOR E. FRANKL The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the... VIKTOR E. FRANKL Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Humility is by far the most spiritual virtue of the lot. The only way by which one may cease obsessi... CRISS JAMI What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He ... ERICH FROMM By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He ... ERICH FROMM One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself... GEORG GRODDECK Execrable son! so to aspire
Above his brethren, to himself assuming
Authority usurp'd, from G... JOHN MILTON The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does no... LAO TZU He is a man significantly involved in the community. He is constantly going above and beyond, not ju... DAVID GORE D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. No... ALEXANDRE DUMAS Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie... ISIDORE DUCASSE LAUTREAMONT Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie... COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfac... JOHANN VON GOETHE Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to con... VIKTOR E. FRANKL The One whose body, mind and speech become saiyamit (under his control), He Himself has become the a... DADA BHAGWAN Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the f... SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS Human is naturally born as vegetarian. By forgetting that truth when a human kills, by himself or by... CHANDRABABU V.S. He is actually doing the right thing for himself because he is preserving himself in power, and he p... GEORGE SOROS When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is... MAX ERNST A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainme... AMIT KALANTRI Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or li... JEAN COCTEAU But Brahms himself was extremely self-critical; he was always pruning and polishing his works. DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one reali... SIDNEY MADWED Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ... SIDNEY MADWED Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ... SYDNEY MADWED When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also go... ABRAHAM LINCOLN A victor knows that problems exist but he does not isolate himself from them SUNDAY ADELAJA Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroy... JAMES ALLEN Jubal paused, surprised at himself. He had intended to make the usual agnostic approach . . . and... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienat... CARL GUSTAV JUNG This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concern... EMIL BRUNNER Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; ... EMILE DURKHEIM A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by viol... RALPH WALDO EMERSON He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. SUSAN SONTAG Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the... WENDELL BERRY He Himself is near, and He Himself is far away; He Himself is in-between. He Himself beholds, and He... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is n... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Failure to recognize one's own absolute significance is equivalent to a denial of human worth; this ... VLADIMIR SERGEYEVICH SOLOVYOV As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil... VEDA UPANISHADS The great human being is a finale; the great age — the Renaissance, for example — is a finale. T... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on ... JASON ALEXANDER He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds ... JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than o... CRISS JAMI He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his
love of possessing wealth. UNKNOWN He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he... RAMAKRISHNA To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness... ERIC HOFFER The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the d... ADAM SMITH “In pride is self-deception and no more so than in he who convinces himself that he is humble.” FRANCIS MAC DONALD To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he i... ALEXIS CARREL Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around hi... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self... VIKTOR E. FRANKL The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. H... AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He g... AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is n... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and shoul... ANNA GARLIN SPENCER No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires mo... JEREMY TAYLOR The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he... THOMAS CARLYLE He that is drunken . . .
Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill
Did with his liquor slide int... GEORGE HERBERT It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world. JOSEPH CAMPBELL He Himself fashioned Himself, the True Lord is invisible and infinite. GURU GOBIND SINGH You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true ... AMARI SOUL What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ... CATHERINE CROWE If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what ... SØREN KIERKEGAARD He Himself is pleased with His humble devotees, my Beloved Lord attaches them to Himself. GURU GOBIND SINGH How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. S... CHARLES LAMB The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but m... THOMAS MERTON The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s... PAUL HOFFMAN A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak ... JAMES ALLEN You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's suc... LEONARDO DA VINCI No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's i... WILLIAM FAULKNER It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with hi... HARRY BROWNE Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of ... FELIX E. SCHELLING A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms... ALEXANDER DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms... ALEXANDRE DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms... AMBROSE BIERCE A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms... ALEXANDRE DUMAS How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ... MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only a... MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make hi... IRVING BABBITT He pulled out the feeding tube that was inserted through his nose into his stomach by himself, but t... CAROL COOPER RYLEY An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that... A. W. TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that... AIDEN WILSON TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that... A.W. TOZER He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the ... BIBLE God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human fo... GURU NANAK A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresisti... LEO TOLSTOY He may or may not have viewed himself as a fine artist, but he did photos for himself as well as com... LEE BRUMBAUGH Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself... URSULA K. LE GUIN In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding h... THOMAS MERTON In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding... THOMAS MERTON He that buys by the penny, maintains not only himself, but other people BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humble... HEIDI BAKER The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. CHARLES H. PARKHURST
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FRANKL I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player. VICTOR CRUZ One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up l... VICTOR LAVALLE When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. VICTOR HUGO No one can keep a secret better than a child. VICTOR HUGO There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. VICTOR HUGO But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. VICTOR HUGO A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. VICTOR HUGO One believes others will do what he will do to himself. VICTOR HUGO The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. VICTOR HUGO A war between Europeans is a civil war. VICTOR HUGO One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ... VICTOR HUGO Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. VICTOR HUGO A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. VICTOR HUGO I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. VICTOR HUGO Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. VICTOR HUGO Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t... VICTOR HUGO The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. VICTOR HUGO Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman... VICTOR HUGO The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. VICTOR HUGO Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that... VICTOR HUGO The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. VICTOR HUGO The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. VICTOR HUGO Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure. VICTOR HUGO It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. VICTOR HUGO Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be... VICTOR HUGO To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. VICTOR HUGO All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. VICTOR HUGO Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes... VICTOR HUGO When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst... VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God. VICTOR HUGO Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. VICTOR HUGO The learned man knows that he is ignorant. VICTOR HUGO Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him... VICTOR HUGO Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. VICTOR HUGO One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. VICTOR HUGO Many great actions are committed in small struggles. VICTOR HUGO To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. VICTOR HUGO Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. VICTOR HUGO Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ... VICTOR HUGO The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. VICTOR HUGO Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows. VICTOR HUGO