Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
VIKTOR E. FRANKLIf there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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These 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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task 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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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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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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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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