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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

Viktor E. Frankl

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
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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Become Existence Men Token
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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Firsts Machine Patient
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
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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Love Men Secret
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Given Last Men
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Challenges Country Fate Inspirational People Victim
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Life Meaning Men Tasks
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Future Past Today Undermine
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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Answers Life Men

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