The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
VIKTOR FRANKLWhen a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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