In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
VIKTOR FRANKLGod is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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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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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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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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