Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThus, 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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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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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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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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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