It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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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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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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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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