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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.

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.

Viktor E. Frankl
Suffering, Spirit, Kind

Despair is suffering without meaning.

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Suffering, Despair, Existential

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

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Fear, Sacrifice, Suffering
Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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.

Viktor E. Frankl
Suffering, Encounters, Existentialism
Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Viktor E. Frankl
Suffering, Heroic, Masochistic

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Viktor E. Frankl
Suffering, Meaning Of Life, Mans Search For Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.73, Beacon Press

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.

Viktor E. Frankl
Life, Suffering, Different
Viktor E. Frankl (1964). “Man S Search For Meaning”, p.101, Ratna Sagar

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

Viktor E. Frankl
Men, Understanding, Suffering
Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

Viktor E. Frankl
Successful, Giving, Suffering
Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.136, Beacon Press

The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

Viktor E. Frankl
Opportunity, Suffering, Unhappy
Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.114, Beacon Press

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