Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
VIKTOR FRANKLEver more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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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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