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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

Viktor E. Frankl

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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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Opportunity Suffering Unhappy
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Meaning Men Search
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love Men Secret
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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Despite Humans Situation
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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Bears Men Neurology
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Ensues Happiness Pursued
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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Encounters Existentialism Suffering
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Meaning Men Search World
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Future Looking Meaning Men Search
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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Art Develop Humorous Light
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Existence Men Moments

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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