We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
VIKTOR FRANKLDespair is suffering without meaning.
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Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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