Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIt said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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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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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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