Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLSuccess, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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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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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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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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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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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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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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 can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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Then 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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This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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