Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLAt any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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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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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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…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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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