As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhen we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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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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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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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