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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIn 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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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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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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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