Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
VIKTOR FRANKLIt isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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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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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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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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