We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLView your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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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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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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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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