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.
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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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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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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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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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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.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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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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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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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.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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