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

Viktor E. Frankl

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Existence Men Moments
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
Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Condition Confront Decision Faces Giving
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
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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Frank Image Mind Real Wife
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Life Spark Unique Web
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Envy Past Possibility Reality Suffering
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
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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Hands Long Sleep
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Powerful Purpose Wise
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Condemn Groups Kindness
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Attitude Grateful Gratitude
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
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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Despite Humans Situation
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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Encounters Existentialism Suffering
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
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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Above Altering Known Life Rise Well
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
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
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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Despair Disease Mean Men

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