Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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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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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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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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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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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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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