It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLA man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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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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At 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 attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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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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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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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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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 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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