The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
VIKTOR E. FRANKLAt any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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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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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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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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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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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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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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