Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThen I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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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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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Once an individual’s search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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