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One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's
life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are
joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to
increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.
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If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh
with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is
harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see --i t
is, rather, a light by which we may see -- and what we see is life.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by
suffering.
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What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary
and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life.
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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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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.
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