Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
VIKTOR FRANKLSuccess, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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 does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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