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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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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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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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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