Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhen we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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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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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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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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