In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
VIKTOR FRANKLWhat is to give light must endure burning.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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No 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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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