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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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
― The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
“You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
― The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
“A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?”
― Stargirl
― Stargirl
“We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most.”
― Maybe Someday
― Maybe Someday
“The echo of her laughter is the second sunrise I awaken to each day, and at night I feel it is more than the stars looking down on me.”
― Stargirl
― Stargirl
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