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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLAs such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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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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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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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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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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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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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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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