Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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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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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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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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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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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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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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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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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