Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe 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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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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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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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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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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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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