In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.

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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.

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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

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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.

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This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

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