No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWe needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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