Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLBut my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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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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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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