Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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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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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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