Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLife can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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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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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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