Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
VIKTOR FRANKLIf there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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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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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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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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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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