The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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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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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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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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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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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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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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