If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLSuccess, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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