The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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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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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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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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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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