Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLThe 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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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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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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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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