Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLWhat 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.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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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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