A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
VIKTOR E. FRANKLHappiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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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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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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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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