Viktor Frankl: What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and…
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
- Source
- From the book Man’s Search for Meaning, English edition, translated by Ilse Lasch (Beacon Press)
- Also quoted as
- Also quoted as “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.”
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