Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHuman kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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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 cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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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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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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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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