We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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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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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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