In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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