When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. ― Viktor E. Frankl

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Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words. — Dante Alighieri

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And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. -Viktor E. Frankl

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A writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This is how we reply to power and beat back our fear. ― Don DeLillo

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The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. - Huey Newton

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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.- Viktor E. Frankl

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Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

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