It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLLife can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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 is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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I 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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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