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What matters is not what we expect from life but what life expects from us

Drawn from what Viktor Frankl said

happiness
What this subject means

happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.

What makes a good life?under our view: Happiness is not a target: it follows from meaning, and chasing it drives it away

What Viktor Frankl actually said

  1. Viktor Frankl Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (1905 to 1997)…
    it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life - daily and hourly.

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