It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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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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Each 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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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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