There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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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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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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