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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

Viktor E. Frankl

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
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Death Fate Life Meaning Suffering
You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Children Clothes Wife
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Intimate Partners Solliloquies
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
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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Opportunity Suffering Unhappy
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
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.
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Meaningful Purposeful Something Struggle
Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Condition Confront Decision Faces Giving
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Boredom Existential Vacuum
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Decent Incident Men Race Two
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Dignity May Men Mentality Spiritual
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search

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