A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
VIKTOR FRANKLEven when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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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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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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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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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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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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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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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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