It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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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