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• Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

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  Sunday, People, Neurosis

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.84, Beacon Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.... What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

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  Simple, Self, Giving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.

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  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

  Choosing Optimism When Pessimism Would Be Easier" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 9, 2009.

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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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• Success is total self-acceptance.

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  Acceptance, Self, Self Acceptance

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

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  Motivation, Men, Chiefs

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• Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

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  Worst Situation, Goal, Challenges

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• In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

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  Fear, Sacrifice, Suffering

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

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• The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

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  Self, Forget, Humans

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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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• 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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• 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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• What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

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  Past, Reality, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.94, 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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• One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky. Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, "How beautiful the world could be.

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  Beautiful, Running, Moving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

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  Life, Love Is, Men

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

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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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• Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

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  Chaos, Stimulus And Response, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.136, Beacon Press

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