Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe salvation of man is through love and in love.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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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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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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