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- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
- Circumstances
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
- Meaning
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
- He
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
- Hiroshima
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
- Differs
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
- Gas Chambers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
- Deciding
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- Nov 07, 2020
A human being is a deciding being.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
- Brainy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
- Nov 07, 2020
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'
- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
- Be Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020