We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLSunday 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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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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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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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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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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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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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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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