Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLife requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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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 not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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