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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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Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.48, Souvenir Press

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Success is total self-acceptance.

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Acceptance, Self, Self Acceptance

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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

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Love, Personality, Way

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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

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Men, Pleasure, Find Me

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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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Pain, Men, Gains

Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

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Suffering, Encounters, Existentialism

Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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But 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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Courage, Grief, Men

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.64, Beacon Press

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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

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Suffering, Heroic, Masochistic

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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.

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Meaningful, Fate, Giving

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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

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Freedom To Choose

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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

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Life, Men, What Matters

Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.109, Beacon Press

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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

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Men, Self, Giving

Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.129, Beacon Press

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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

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Deeds Done, Forget, Good Deeds

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.123, Beacon Press

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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

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Art, Humorous, Light

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.40, Beacon Press

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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

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Love, Men, Secret

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

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Happiness, Spiritual, Views

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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

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Intimate, Partners

Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.

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Earth, Mans Search For Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.67, Beacon Press

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Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

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Healing, Conflict, Stimulus And Response

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I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

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Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

"Man's Search for Meaning". Book by Viktor Frankl, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1946.

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Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

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Self, Sides, Side Effects

Viktor E. Frankl (1966). “Man's Search for Meaning”

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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.

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Important

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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

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Beloved, Mans Search For Meaning, Search For Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.36, Beacon Press

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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

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Pain, Remembrance, Deny

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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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Life, Suffering, Different

Viktor E. Frankl (1964). “Man S Search For Meaning”, p.101, Ratna Sagar

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Born: March 26, 1905
Died: September 2, 1997
Occupation: M.D.
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