Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLBut there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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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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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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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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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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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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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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A human being is a deciding being.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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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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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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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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