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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

Viktor E. Frankl

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Fate Inspirational Men
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Chance Life Second Time
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Encounters Existential Human Long
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Being Kind Perhaps Surest
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
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
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
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.
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Challenges Country Fate Inspirational People Victim
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Life Love Men
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
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Alive Deepest Meaning Self Spiritual

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

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