What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLife requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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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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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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