Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEverywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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