It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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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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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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