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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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No 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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The 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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…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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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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