Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWoe 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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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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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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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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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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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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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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