Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
VIKTOR FRANKLAn abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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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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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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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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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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