It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEverywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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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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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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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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If 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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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