Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHappiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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 the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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