If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

  • -- Viktor Emil Frankl 维克多·埃米尔·弗兰克尔

如果建筑师想要加固一个破旧的拱门,他们会增加施加在上面的荷载,因为这样各个部分就能更牢固地连接在一起。因此,如果治疗师希望培养他们的病人的心理健康,他们不应该害怕通过对人生意义的重新定位而增加这种负担。

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But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

但如果莎士比亚自己是关于意义和真理的,我不知道,那么他肯定是关于快乐和兴趣的,我们从快乐和兴趣开始,但也许最终会到达意义和真理。

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

每个人都有自己的天职;他的才能是他的使命。只有一个方向,所有的空间对他都是开放的。

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

一首诗不需要有意义,就像自然界的大多数事物一样,往往没有意义。

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

我们决不能让自己变成我们所反对的体制那样。