A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in 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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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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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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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