It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
VIKTOR E. FRANKLA man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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