We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
VIKTOR FRANKLTo suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Man’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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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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