What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLove goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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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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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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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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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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