Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
VIKTOR FRANKLPain 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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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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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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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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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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