The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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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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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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