Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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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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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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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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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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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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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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Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
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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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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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