…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his 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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View 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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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