As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.
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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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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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