As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLOur main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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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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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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