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
VIKTOR E. FRANKLA human being is a deciding being.
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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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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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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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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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