Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe 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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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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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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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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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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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