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 FRANKLMan’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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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 salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his 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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Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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