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. FRANKLThe last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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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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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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