In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
VIKTOR FRANKLMan’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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 meaning in suffering.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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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 search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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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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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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