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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

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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 times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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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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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Belief God Unconditional
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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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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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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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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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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