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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEverywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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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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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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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. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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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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