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.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLA 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 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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A human being is a deciding being.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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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.
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the 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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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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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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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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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