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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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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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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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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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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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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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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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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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