The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
VIKTOR FRANKLMan’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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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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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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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 search for meaning is the chief motivation of 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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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