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• Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

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  Life, Time, Second Chance

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• The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

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  Keys, Quests, Mental Health

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.120, Beacon Press

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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 the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. 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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  Life, Change, Song

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

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• Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

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  Goal, Higher Goals, Strive

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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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• 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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• 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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  Unique, Web Of Life, Sparks

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• Despair is suffering without meaning.

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  Suffering, Despair, Existential

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• An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

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  Abnormal, Behavior, Reactions

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.29, 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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• Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

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  Strong, Famous Inspirational, Fire

  Viktor E. Frankl (2000). “Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning”, Basic Books

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• Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be

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  Individual, Should, Contribution

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• Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its 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.

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  Spiritual, Self, Alive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.36, 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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• Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

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  Instant, Humans, Search For Meaning

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

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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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  People, Survival, Times Of Crisis

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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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  Honesty, Humility, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being until he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.

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  Love, Success, Essence

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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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• 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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• To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

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  Men, World, May

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.91, Beacon Press

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• There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.

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  Men, Race, Two

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.70, Beacon Press

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• The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

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• Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

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  Fighting, Self, Soul

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.39, Beacon Press

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