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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLove goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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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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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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