Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLive as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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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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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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