If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
VIKTOR FRANKLEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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