Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIn his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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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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