When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
VIKTOR FRANKLEach of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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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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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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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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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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