It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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