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VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhat was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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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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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in 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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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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