Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThis 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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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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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 last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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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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