Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNo 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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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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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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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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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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