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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIf we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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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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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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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