The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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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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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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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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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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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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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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 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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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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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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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in 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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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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