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
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIf there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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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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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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