Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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If 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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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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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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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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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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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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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