Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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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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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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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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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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