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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLA human being is a deciding being.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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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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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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