These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMost important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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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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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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