The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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