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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEach of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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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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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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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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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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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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But 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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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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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