Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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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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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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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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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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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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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