Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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 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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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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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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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