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“He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.”
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.
Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times.
Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way i...
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Living a Life That Matters, and When All You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough.
“There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.”
The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
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.
“Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.”
to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
(What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.)
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.
