There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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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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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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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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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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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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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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