Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
VIKTOR FRANKLYou don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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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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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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’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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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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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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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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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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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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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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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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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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