Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
VIKTOR E. FRANKLOne can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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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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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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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 meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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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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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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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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