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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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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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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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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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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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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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Ultimately, 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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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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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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