We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHappiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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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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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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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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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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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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