I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI 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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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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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