The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
VIKTOR FRANKLEven when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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Success is total self-acceptance.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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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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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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