Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHappiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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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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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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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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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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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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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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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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