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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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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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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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