I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIf there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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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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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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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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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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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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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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