Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
VIKTOR FRANKLWe 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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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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.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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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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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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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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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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