Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLInstead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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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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