Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLNo one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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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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