Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
VIKTOR FRANKLSpiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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