Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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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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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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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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