Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLOur 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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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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