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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan 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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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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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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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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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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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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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. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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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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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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