It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
VIKTOR E. FRANKLEverything 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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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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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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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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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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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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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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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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