A human being is a deciding being.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHaving been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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