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Thinker · 5 quotes
5 sourced quotes by Viktor Frankl on happiness & meaning of life, duty & responsibility, resilience & perseverance, mind & self-awareness, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.
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.
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. p. 32 in the 1992 edition, , Beacon Press