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Understand the meaning in suffering
- To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
- Life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones.
- A man’s suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber
- Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete
- This infinite meaning of life includes suffering and dying, privation and death.
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Love and Humour
- Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
- Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or no...
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Achieving Success and freedom
- Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the...
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Live
- Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
- “Life” does not mean something vague, but something very real and concrete, just as life’s...
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Deriving Meaning Through Suffering
Nietzsche, the famous philosopher, argues that man seeks pain as long as it brings him meaning, and eventually happiness, contentment, or satisfaction. The fire of misery and suffering isn’t extinguished with pleasure, but with meaning.
If our suffering is worthwhile, we are on the...
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how
To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering. If there is a purpose in life, there must be a purpose in suffering and dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself and accept his answer's responsibility.
All the ...
The Main Drive In Life
Psychiatrist Victor Frankl, whose classic book Man’s Search For Meaning promotes better mental and emotional health by discovering meaning in our lives, provided us with a dilemma: To savour the world or to enjoy it.
The main drive of life, according to many ...
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