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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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• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

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  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  "How Doing What You Love Serves Humanity" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2009.

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• To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

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  Suffering, Heroic, Masochistic

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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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• Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

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  Healing, Conflict, Stimulus And Response

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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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• 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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• Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.

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  Belief, Unconditional, Belief In God

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• I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

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  Ministry, Berlin, Lectures

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.12, Souvenir Press

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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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• 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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• For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

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  Happiness, Dedication, Causes

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Men, Pleasure, Find Me

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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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• If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

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  Suffering, Meaning Of Life, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.73, Beacon Press

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• Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

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  Life, Self, Giving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

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  Attitude, Lasts

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• Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

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  Inspirational, Fate, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

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  Doe, World, States

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.

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  Men, Self, Decision

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

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  Suffering, Spirit, Kind

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• The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal

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  Fate, Fighting, Animal

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.73, 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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