Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Man’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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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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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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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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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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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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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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