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• To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

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  Suffering, Heroic, Masochistic

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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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• A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

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  Life, Responsibility, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.65, Beacon Press

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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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• If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

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  Men, Becoming, Should

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Success is total self-acceptance.

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  Acceptance, Self, Self Acceptance

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

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  Men, Pleasure, Find Me

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

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  Gratitude, Pain, Disappointment

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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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• Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

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  Motivation, Men, Chiefs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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