If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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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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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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