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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThus, 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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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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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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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