These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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 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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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