Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWoe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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It is always important to have something yet to do 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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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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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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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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