As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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But 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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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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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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