It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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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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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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