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

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

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  3. Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of. – Viktor E Frankl
  4. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. – Viktor E Frankl
  5. 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
  6. In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious. – Viktor E Frankl
  7. A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. – Viktor E Frankl
  8. The salvation of man is through love and in love – Viktor E Frankl
  9. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. – Viktor E Frankl
  10. Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering. – Viktor E Frankl
  11. Unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic. – Viktor E Frankl
  12. Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered. – Viktor E Frankl
  13. The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire. – Viktor E Frankl
  14. No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel. – Viktor E Frankl
  15. We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events. – Viktor E Frankl
  16. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
  17. Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else. – Brian Spellman
  18. MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? -¦ Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that? – Anton Chekhov
  19. Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning? – Irvin D Yalom
  20. Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning. – Hans Kng
  21. The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love. – Mary Balogh
  22. The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning. – Niels Bohr
  23. Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls. – Walt Whitman
  24. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  25. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  26. Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. – Richard Llewellyn
  27. Sadly, when a person’s possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both. – Orrin Woodward
  28. How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn’t life. People need meaning as much as they need air. – Daniel H Wilson
  29. Search for truth, not for meaning. Meaning comes from the perspective of a person who interprets the truth. – JR Rim
  30. Forsaking all others means going deep with one person — exhaustingly deep. – Ada Calhoun
  31. Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide. – Sharon Weil
  32. If a pleasure lasts forever, it isn’t a pleasure anymore. – Debasish Mridha
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  35. Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
  36. It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. – Marcel Proust
  37. It was his vocation to pleasure as many women as possible, in pursuit of his own pleasure. It was as close to a job as he got. – Rosanna Leo
  38. The ‘ pleasure’ of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness. – Ayn Rand
  39. When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure. – Miguel Ruiz
  40. God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell! – Michael Bassey Johnson

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