Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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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.”
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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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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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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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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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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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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