Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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 attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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 isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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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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