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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

Viktor E. Frankl

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Goal Inspirational Life
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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Believe Greatest Quests Task Taught
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Sides
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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Firsts Machine Patient
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Attitude Grateful Gratitude
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Existence Men Moments
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
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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Envy Past Possibility Reality Suffering
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Away Choose Freedom Take
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Men
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Deeds Done Forget Good

The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

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