No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThese tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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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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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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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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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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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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