What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLInstead 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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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 not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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