It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
VIKTOR E. FRANKLOne should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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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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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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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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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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