A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLFor 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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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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