Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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