Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLBeing 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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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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 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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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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