As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLSunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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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.
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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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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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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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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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