Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLUltimately, 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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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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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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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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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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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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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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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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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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