If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIf 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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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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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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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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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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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