We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWe cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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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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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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