Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan’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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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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One 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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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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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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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