Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThis is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its 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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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