Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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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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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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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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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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