It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLBeing 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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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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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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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