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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

Viktor E. Frankl

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
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Kind Spirit Suffering
Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Learning Men Teaching
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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Meaning Men Search World
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Country Lectures Ministry Ultimately
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Sides
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Courage Grief Men
View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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Frame May Spiritual Views
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
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
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Keys Mental Health Quests
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Away Choose One Thing Way
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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