It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNo one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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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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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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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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