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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhen we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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.
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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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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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