The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
VIKTOR FRANKLThe point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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 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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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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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.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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