Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLUltimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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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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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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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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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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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 the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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.
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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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