You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLView 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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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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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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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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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