Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWe can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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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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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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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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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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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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