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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Bad Inspirational World Worse
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Circumstance Lack Life Meaning Purpose
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Freedom Stand
Each 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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Be Yourself Life Separate Spark Unique
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Pursue
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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Despite Freedom Human Life Physical Situation
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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Choose Respond
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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Choose Freedom Growth Power Response Space
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love One Liner Salvation
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Challenge Change Inspirational Ourselves Situation
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
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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Act Live Time Wrong
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Abnormal Behavior Normal Reaction Situation
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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Beloved Importance Love Person Physical Spiritual
Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Inspirational Intelligence Life
Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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Contrubution Discover Individual Life
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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Crisis Depend Finding Life Meaning People Seek Strength Survival Time
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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Avoid Concern Gain Life Man Meaning Pain Pleasure
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Change Decision Existence Freedom Human Being Instant Man Token
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Art Attempt Development Learning Light Live Master Sense Of Humor Trick
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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Cease Finding Moments Sacrifice Suffering
Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Fight Humor Preservation Soul Weapon
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Finding Himself Man Meaning Outside
Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Deny Existence Hard Time Inspirational Pain Struggle Suffering
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Man Raise Strength
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Deep Expectation Inspirational Life
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Creation Detect Inspirational Mission Travel

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