Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLFundamentally, 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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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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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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
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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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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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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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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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The 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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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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