Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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…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.
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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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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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